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Teenage bank robber re-arrested after escaping police cell

A 19-year-old boy who escaped from Nyamira Police Station on Thursday morning was re-arrested on Saturday.[Strandard, File]

A 19-year-old boy who escaped from Nyamira Police Station on Thursday morning was re-arrested on Saturday night after he was found inside a bank with a knife and pliers.

The boy, who is a Form Three student at a secondary school in Nyamira, had been arrested on suspicion of attempting to steal from the Nyamira branch of the Kenya Commercial Bank. He managed to break out of his cell during a routine clean-up by breaking the ceiling that was part of the cell roof.

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