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Boy can smile after doctors reattach hand severed by chaff cutter

Benevolence’s right arm was severed by a chaff cutter as he was helping his father feed cows.

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Sunday, October 4 started like any other normal day for the Iticha family. But at 8am, things turned bloody for the Kiambu County family in an unexpected turn of events. Anthony Iticha had tasked his seven-year-old son, Benevolence, to feed the cows. He left him on the chaff cutter as he went to fetch grass. Shortly afterwards, he heard a scream that left him frozen.

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