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I'm lucky to be alive, says Bomet quarry survivor

Police remove the body of Willy Kiplangat, 30, who died at Chepkositonik quarry in Bomet County on Tuesday. [Gilbert Kimutai, Standard]

When Tangus Philemon woke up on Tuesday morning to go mine sand, nothing had prepared him of what awaited him at a sand quarry in Chepkositonik, Bomet County. 

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