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Kenya: Suspects arrested in killing of Irish missionary

December 18, 2009

Kenyan police have arrested three suspects in the brutal killing of Father Jeremiah Roche, a 68-year-old Irish missionary slain during the night of December 10-11. Father Roche had ministered in Kenya for four decades.

 

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