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Shakahola massacre: Woman died of starvation hours after giving birth

Kenya red cross society staff off load bodies at the mortuary for postmortem. [Victor Ogalle, Standard]

A woman whose body was retrieved from a grave at Shakahola in Malindi died hours after she had given birth, an autopsy revealed on Thursday.

Government Chief Pathologist Johansen Oduor said the unidentified woman died of starvation just hours after she had delivered a baby.

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