Police in Kitui County are investigating an incident where two minors lost their lives following a botched circumcision.
The two boys aged five and seven died at their parents’ home in Lundi village in Mwingi East, Kitui County on Friday evening.
Reports indicate the brothers bled to death without receiving any medical help since their parents are members of the Kavonokia sect, which forbids its faithful from visiting hospitals.
A 70-year-old circumciser who performed the failed surgical operation has since been arrested as investigations continue.
The bodies of the two children were moved to Mwingi Level Four Hospital pending postmortem examination.
Health CS Mutahi Kagwe recently urged traditional elders to postpone this year’s initiation ceremonies due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
“It is better to have a postponed initiation ceremony than have somebody to initiate or carry out an initiation ceremony and kill our young men,” CS Kagwe said.
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