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Man charged with killing of three-year-old girl during rock blasting

A man was yesterday charged at a Kakamega law courts with the killing of a neighbour’s three-year-old daughter during the extraction of rocks using explosives.

Ben Mutuka was however not charged with murder but manslaughter after the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) intervened saying the girl's death was not intentional.

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