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Agony of painful deaths at old-age as 'witch-hunts' rock Coast

 The elderly who have run away from their homes on allegations of being witches at their homestead at Kaya Godoma area of Ganze in Kilifi County.
[PHOTOS: KELVIN KARANI/STANDARD]

Mombasa, Kenya: Mzee Samuel Katana, 64, fights back tears as he lists using his fingers elderly colleagues recently lynched by their relatives in Ngerenyi, a remote village in the coastal county of Kilifi.

“Over 10 of my friends are no more, all accused of being sorcerers. There are very few old men left in my neighbourhood,” he says pensively.

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