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Residents forced to disturb the dead to evade nature's wrath

Agneta Auma Akelo, whose house and her sons' were destroyed by floods. Hyacinth now grows in the compound and hippos visit at night while she lives in a camp with her grandchildren. [Lynet Otieno, Standard]

Not even the dead have been spared intrusion by climate-induced disasters, especially flooding in the Lake Victoria basin.

The worst has been exhumation, which an affected family in Nyando Constituency is not available to comment on. One Jacktone Otieno, a local, however, confirms.

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