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Tears flow, politics creep in at Hillside memorial service as four pupils buried

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Pupils who died in a fire tragedy at Hillside Endarasha Academy in Nyeri. [Courtesy]

In two neighbouring villages of Gitegi and Charity, in homesteads not far away from one another, four children, the oldest being 13 years old, were interred Thursday.

The four were part of the 21 that perished in a fire tragedy at Hillside Endarasha Academy three weeks ago.

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