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Disabled teacher scalded by family over witchcraft claims

A 33-year-old ECDE teacher is recuperating at Embu level 5 Teaching and Referral Hospital after sustaining serious injuries in a ghastly attack by family members who have accused of witchcraft.
Peter Nyaga Ivara, an ECDE teacher at Gatete Primary School in Mbeere South Sub County of Embu County, says his two nephews wrestled him down before dragging him to their homestead where they set him on fire.
“I left school as usual at around 4:10 pm. It’s walking, about five kilometres to Karura trading centre where I took some time to rest before heading home. It is while walking home that I found my two nephews who had waylaid me and they wrestled me down,” Nyaga said. 

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