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22 deaths in 10 days: Are the police killing suspects?

Relatives and family friends of the three children who were shot dead at a close range by police officers at Utange village in Bamburi break into tears at the Coast General Hospital where they had gone to view the bodies in September, 2018. Two of the boys were hawking second hand clothes while the other one had been sent by her mother to the shop. [Gideon Maundu, Standard]

It was almost daybreak when they came. The rain had reduced to a drizzle and matatus on the roads were hooting in search of early risers.

Evans Oduor and Bernard Otieno were suddenly startled from their sleep by loud knocks on the door of their tin shack in Mathare North.

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