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The Pakistani girls rounded up during the New Year's eve raid at Balle Balle Club on Nairobi's Chiromo Lane off Ojijo Road in Parklands. Nairobi. [Elvis Ogina.Standard]

The crowd inside Balle Balle club on the fourth floor of Nairobi’s Loftus Plaza had worked itself into a frenzy. In a few hours, the countdown to the New Year would begin and with it a show of lights, smoke and something more spectacular would be on display.

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