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[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 2 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


At least three people have died in the past week when bulldozers brought down structures on top of them, according to rights groups, family members of the deceased and residents who spoke to The Associated Press.

Among those killed was Makinda’s 17-year-old Ian Otieno, who was crushed to death when an excavator brought down a wall of the Pentecostal Evangelistic Fellowship of Africa church while he was inside helping save property.

A single parent of four sons and four daughters, Makinda faces forceful eviction this week from the $15-a-month tin shack she calls home in Kenya’s populous Mathere slums.

One of her children is suffering from sickle cell anemia that often leaves her bed-ridden and in need of costly treatment and her youngest needs frequent medical attention after being scalded by boiling water around the torso.

Overwhelmed by her situation Makinda tried to jump into the raging waters of the Mathare River to “end the stress.” Luckily, her neighbors stopped her on Wednesday and calmed her by giving her a local moonshine called “Changaa” popular in rural and low-income areas of the capital.

“I am really bitter because police stood by as people looted my belongings,” Otondo said from a local primary school where she has received temporary shelter.


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