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Emotions run high as two children killed during parents’ fight buried in Machakos

Martina Mumo (7) and Valerian Nduku (5), were killed on January 2 at their Taru home after their parents quarrelled. [Nzau Musau, Standard]

An exhausted, bitter, sobbing but restrained crowd huddled together in Ngaa village, Masii in Machakos county today to bury two children killed in Kinango, Kwale as a result of domestic feud pitting their parents.

Their small white coffins placed under the shade of an imposing mango tree, in the humble remote countryside, added to the grief that engulfed the village.

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