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News of KDF pilot’s death in ‘Linda Nchi’ chopper crash killed his father

The late Major Samuel Keli Kavindu

By PAUL WAFULA and NYAMBEGA GISESA

Kitui, Kenya: Francis Kavindu arrived at his Kivani home in Kitui County one Wednesday morning in late 2011. He found men digging a grave. When he asked whose grave it was, he was told it was for his fifth-born son, Major Samuel Keli Kavindu.

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