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Police rule out suicide in death of Grade 8 pupil at a Nairobi school

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Police collect the body of the deceased from the school's first-floor balcony. [Patrick Vidija, Standard]

Police have downplayed claims that a 13-year-old Grade 8 pupil who died at Joy Garden Primary School in Nairobi committed suicide.

Buruburu OCPD Francis Kamau told The Standard that preliminary investigations indicate the deceased would have been murdered elsewhere within the school premises before his body was dumped on the balcony.

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