Kenya: Woman Nabbed Over Son's Death

20 March 2014

Butere POLICE have arrested a woman over the death of her eight-monthold baby from a dose of ORS medicine. Police boss Paul Wanjama said Penina Wimbaro, 18, gave her son the medicine.

"The boy died moments after he was given the medicine his mother picked from Butere county hospital after the baby

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