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Embakasi rats stealing women’s underwear

Kwa Njenga slums

Women from Kwa Njenga slums in Embakasi have been forced to hide their pants after rats showed an insatiable appetite for them.

Residents say the rats habitually patrol the makeshift bathrooms to steal aired undergarments. A few stubborn rats even enter the houses in search of the underwear, which they race to holes in the sewers. Others disappear without a trace.

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