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Abandoned pits turn into death traps

Residents mill around a borrow pit abandoned by a road contractor in Kipkabus, Uasin Gishu County on Sunday, September 15, 2019. At least seven people have drowned and died in borrow pits this year alone in the North Rift. [Stephen Rutto, Standard]

Borrow pits dug by road contractors and left unfilled for months in the North Rift region have become death traps.

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