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Alarm as six boys die in botched circumcisions

Preliminary reports blamed the deaths of initiates on, among other things 'hardcore and drunken caretakers' in some circumcision shrines. [iStockphoto]

Health workers and Chiefs in North Rift counties have been put on high alert after six initiates died in botched circumcision rites in two counties.

Massive circumcision rites among teenage boys currently on long school holidays commenced in November across several counties in the Rift Valley.

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