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Six of 14 Kakamega pupils killed in stampede suffocated, says pathologist

Parents gather outside accident and emergency unit at Kakamega Referral Hospital wanting to know the fate of their children after a stampede which killed 14 children at Kakamega Primary School. [Nathan Ochunge, Standard]

Six of the fourteen pupils who died in Kakamega Primary School stampede on Monday succumbed to suffocation, Western region Government Pathologist Dickson Mchana has said.

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