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Families wiped out in dam tragedy as 37 bodies of victims identified so far

Friends and relatives of Solai dam tragedy victims reacting after identifying the bodies of their loved ones at Nakuru County Mortuary on 11 May, 2018. [Harun Wathari, Standard]

The sun set on them as a unit but by dawn, 14 of them had been dispatched to their hereafter by raging waters.

The families of Benson Mureithi and his cousin Isaac Muna were among the hardest hit by the catastrophic Solai dam tragedy that occurred on Wednesday night.

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