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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Hannah Al-Othman

Who was Agnes Wanjiru, Kenyan woman killed near army base in 2012?

Rose Wanyua Wanjiku holds photos of her sister Agnes
Rose Wanyua Wanjiku holding photos of her sister Agnes. Photograph: Brian Inganga/AP

Perhaps the Kenyan market town of Nanyuki’s greatest claim to fame was that it straddles the equator. But now it has become synonymous with something darker. It was here where Agnes Wanjiru was born and lived and where she was brutally killed.

Her family searched for her for months before her body was found stuffed into a septic tank at the same hotel where she had last been seen alive.

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