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Mandera terror attack victim buried in Nyeri amid kin's protest

Chaos erupted at Nyaribo after a grandfather refused his grandson Simon Mwangi, 34, one of the Mandera attack victims to be buried at his farm. (PHOTO: KIBATA KIHU/ STANDARD)

The burial ceremony of a terror attack victim was disrupted when his grandfather barred mourners from accessing the final resting place.

A standoff occurred at the homestead of Daniel Wang'ombe after his daughter, Mary Nyawira, secretly collected her son's body from the Nyeri County Referral Hospital mortuary and took it to the father's compound in Honi village, Nyeri County.

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