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Teacher canes pupil to death

Despite caning in schools having been banned by law a decade ago, a nine-year-old pupil at Kangoya primary school in Kiambu has Thursday succumbed to injuries allegedly inflicted on him by a teacher in a caning incident. The class four boy is alleged to have been punished for misusing an exercise book.
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