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The scenic hills of Great Rift that kill every time it rains

Pictures of destruction occasioned by mudslide that hit Chesegon village at the border of Elgeyo Marakwet and West Pokot counties killing four and displacing hundreds. [Kevin Tunoi]  

By last evening, Chesegon village, on the Elgeyo Marakwet and West Pokot counties border was still searching for its sons and daughters, buried alive in up to 10 feet of mud.

The Rift Valley escarpment, once a scenic beauty that attracted visitors like a magnet, has now turned to a graveyard.

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