Police arrest 6 after a colored boy died in an adulthood circumcision initiation ritual in Kenya

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Police arrest 6 after a teenage boy died in an adulthood initiation ritual in Kenya
Updated 8:04 AM ET, Tue November 27, 2018

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Nairobi, Kenya (CNN) Six people have been arrested after a teenage boy died in an adulthood initiation ritual that went wrong in Kenya.
Juliano Kanyonyo, 15, died Wednesday morning after being sent to a camp to join other teenage boys in a traditional ceremony designed to teach him the customary values of his people.

Days after returning from the trip and recovering from a circumcision that is part of the ritual, Kanyonyo was found dead by his sister at their home in Kandara, central Kenya.
"I went to serve him tea, we are not allowed in that house as females but he would pick it from outside but that morning he did not wake up, his sister Lucy Njoki told CNN.

"I left until mother came and we peeped to see him lying on the floor with foam on his mouth," Njoki said.
 
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