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Nyatike MP Tom Odege (left) grabs a microphone from Elisha Odhiambo at a burial in Nyatike on Friday. [Caleb Kingwara]
Scores of people were injured in a stampede after chaos broke out at a funeral in Nyatike at the weekend, in the presence of area MP Tom Odege and Governor Okoth Obado.
Speeches were disrupted and bodyguards of several politicians present cocked their guns after a group of youth armed with crude weapons stormed the burial of high school principal Joseph Ayogo Onditi on Friday afternoon.
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