Six Kenyan Teenagers Arrested For Alleged Murder

The teenagers aged between aged between 16 and 18 years, allegedly kidnapped and demanded a ransom of U.S.$494 for a nine-year-old boy, whose body was later found dumped in a ditch after his throat was slit.

Police officers carry the body of a nine-year-old boy which had been dumped in a thicket at Shikhungula village in Kakamega on June 2, 2019.

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