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Where rumour of being a witch is death sentence

Rebecca Gesare shows where her mother was lynched in Ikuruma village, Marani Sub-county, Kisii. [Sammy Omingo, Standard]

Three blood-stained wooden clubs lying in a nappier farm farm tell how bloody it becomes if you are suspected of being a witch in Kisii's Ikuruma village, Marani Sub-county.

The clubs were actually used by the killers of Kwamboka Iriera, 68, last week, on suspicion that she was a witch. Yes, suspicion.

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