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Two arrested after police dig up body in shallow latrine

Shallow grave where Mwendwa Michael was buried. [Stephen Nzioka, Standard]

A woman and her son were yesterday arrested after police exhumed human remains suspected to be those of a man who went missing five years ago in Iani village, Mukaa, in Makueni County.

A neighbour, Ndinda Kyalo, allegedly overheard a conversation between two family members implicating the son of killing Michael Mwendwa and burying him in a shallow pit latrine.

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