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Couple refuses to bury infant, demands DNA

Family to do DNA to ascertain maternity of dead child in hospital. [iStockphoto]

A couple refused to take home a body given to them at the Nyamira Maternity Ward, claiming that their child was stolen.

The case, akin to the Biblical one presented to King Solomon by two women over a dead baby and one that was alive, pitted a mother against another, each claiming the live infant.

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