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Harrowing tales from families over Shakahola massacre

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Homicide detectives carry some of the bodies that were retrieved from the shallow graves within Shakahola forest in Kilifi County. [Marion Kithi, Standard]

Salama Masha, 28, walked for kilometres with her five children out of the expansive Shakahola Forest. Her act of bravery is the reason she and her children are alive today.

Masha believes her husband Kahindi Katana must have died in the forest because she left him in the forest in a bad state after he refused to leave.

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