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Three students die in Bondo gold mine tragedy

By Isaiah Gwengi | Oct. 10, 2019

**The gold mine site where three miners died after it caved in on them.** [Isaiah Gwengi, Standard]

Three gold miners all said to be students died in Nango, Bondo Sub-County, after a mine caved in covering them after a heavy downpour on Thursday.

Police identified the victims as Nicholas Arwa, a Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) candidate at Uyawi Secondary School, David Ochieng Duro studying at Egerton University Nakuru Campus, and Kevin Ochieng’ Juma- a secondary school student whose details remained scanty.

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