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Update: Fuel tanker rammed into coffin shop in Nyamira, killing attendant

A kiosk was rammed by a diesel tanker this morning. Four others are recuperating in hospital [Stanley Ongwae, Standard]

When a coffin Sales Executive Vanice Kemuto retired to the privacy of her bedroom on Tuesday night, she had plans for the next day but death followed her to the bed.

Near Ibaara Catholic Parish in Nyamira County, a driver lost control of an oil tanker ferrying diesel which veered off the road, ramming into the building which ironically houses a coffin shop where she was employed as a salesperson, destroying 15 of the boxes some of which had been paid for.

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