Residents in fear as 47 houses torched

Boniface Mwangila, a Navakholo-based construction worker reinstalls roofing sheets in one of the 47 houses that were set on fire by the locals following the mysterious death of 18-year old Kelvin Mutenyo in Emukaya village, Navakholo Subcounty in Kakamega County. [Mumo Munuve, Standard]

Residents of Navakholo Sub-county, Kakamega County are living in fear after 47 houses were torched down in a revenge attack over the killing of a teenage boy, Kevin Mutenyo.

An irate mob descended on the villages of Emukaya and and Eburenga in Shinoyi/Esumeiya/Shikomari ward, destroying crops and attacking livestock before setting the houses ablaze.