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Family demands answers after boy killed by tea-plucking machine in Kericho

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The nine-year-old boy died of excessive bleeding. [iStockphoto]

Emmanuel Kipkurui, a nine-year-old boy who was killed by a self-propelled tea-plucking machine at Cheptabes tea estate in Kericho County, died of excessive bleeding.

This is according to an autopsy conducted at Kapkatet Hospital Mortuary on Tuesday, January 24, 2023.

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