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Man exhumed after 37 years to be reburied next to wife

Youth from Kandutura, Rongai Nakuru County, help exhume the remains of Gideon Kihara, who died 37 years ago, so his family can bury them afresh in the new land it relocated to. [Kipsang Joseph, Standard]

Residents of Kandutura village in Rongai, Nakuru County, were shocked on Thursday when they woke up to find members of a family exhuming the body of a man said to have died 37 years ago.

The man, identified as Gideon Kihara, is said to have died in 1984. However, his family has since moved to another land in the neighbouring Kimangu village.

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