Kenya: Loliondo Pilgrimage Marred By Deaths And Accidents

Arusha — The Tanzanian government has confirmed that six people have died as they tried to reach or after they left Loliondo in northern Tanzania for the wonder drug promised by a local faith healer.

Ngorongoro District Commissioner Elias Wawa Lali told the Sunday Nation that the six died on March 8. Five of them died on the queue while the fifth, a child, was crushed by a vehicle he was under when the parents went for the liquid concoction.

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