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Grave in Mwingi lies empty as parents refuse to hand over body

Joyce Mwende Ngui, 30, was shot dead by a prisons officer attached to Waita GK prison in Mwingi, Kitui County on May 18, 2021. (Philip Muasya, Standard)

A dispute has emerged over the burial place for the slain Mwingi woman who was shot dead by a Prisons officer alongside her one-year-old son on Tuesday last week.

The row over the burial place pits the woman’s parents, a section of the Mwingi Muslim community and her separated husband.

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