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‘Missing Kenyan lovers may have embarked on suicide mission’

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8 years ago

October 20, 2016

'Missing Kenyan lovers may have embarked on suicide mission'

A senior police warden identified as Simon Gitau believes the two lovers who went missing in the Mt Kenya national park were on a suicide mission as they both switched off their phones after entering the mountain through Sirimon Gate in Meru County without a tour guide.

The pair, musician Dennis Kirimi (left), 22, and his girlfriend Yvonne Mwenda, 21, a student at Kirinyaga Technical University have been missing for the past two weeks as search and rescue teams have been combing Mt Kenya.

Gitau who informed that the lovers were last seen at St Moses camp further noted that; “The lady left a note at her university hostel saying that people should not search or worry [about] them as they have gone to a better and a happier place. She asked a fellow student to give the note to her mother,” Mr Gitau said.

He added that the couple may have deliberately gone missing as opposed to (accidentally) getting lost.

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