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Thika family seeks justice of niece killed by police amid cover-up claims

Penina Wambui (left), the slain girl’s aunt, with a police officer at her home in Kiandutu slum, Thika. [PHOTO: KAMAU MAICHUHIE/STANDARD]

KENYA: Had it not been for the ongoing nationwide teachers strike, Caroline Wanjiku, 15, would perhaps be alive today.

To escape boredom at home in Mukuruwe-ini, Nyeri County, the student asked her parents to let her visit her aunt in Kiandutu slum in Thika until the strike was resolved.

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