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Shock as body of missing nursery school girl found in maize farm

By Boniface Gikandi | 11yrs ago

Waitua village residents watch as a police vehicle transports a badly mutilated body of a five year old nursery school pupil who was found murdered after she went missing since Friday last week. [PHOTO: BONIFACE GIKANDI/STANDARD]

MURANG’A COUNTY: A five-year-old nursery school pupil was found murdered and her body dumped in a maize farm in Waitua village in Kandara sub-county.

The badly mutilated body was reportedly found in a farm by a search party in the village after she went missing on Friday last week.

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