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The man Kenya forgot: Miner Tom Okwach’s family painful cry 37 days later

The family of Tom Okwach, one of the miners trapped in the goldmine shaft in Abimbo, Siaya.

Jackline Okwach stares at a pile of debris with her hands tightly gripped on her cheeks, overwhelmed with sorrow as a lone excavator slowly makes its way into a mine where her husband, Tom Okwach, lies trapped.

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