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Health crisis looms in Kiambu as residents store looted toxic sodium cyanide

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Sodium cyanide cylinders dumped a few metres from where lorry ferrying them overturned in Kambembe, Rironi. [Kimaku Chege, Standard]

A road accident in Kiambu County has rapidly escalated into a potential public health disaster with far-reaching consequences.

On Saturday, a truck ferrying 22 tonnes of sodium cyanide en route to Uganda overturned, spilling its lethal cargo in Kambembe, Rironi.

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