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Nairobi \u2014 Boniface Mwangi Kariuki, the 22-year-old mask vendor who was shot in the head at close range during the ‘Justice for Albert Ojwang’ protests, has been declared brain dead, his family has confirmed.<\/p>\n
Speaking to journalists at Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) on Sunday, family spokesperson Emily Wanjira said doctors informed them at midnight that Kariuki’s brainstem had ceased functioning, though his heart was still beating with the help of machines.<\/p>\n
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Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Nairobi \u2014 Boniface Mwangi Kariuki, the 22-year-old mask vendor who was shot in the head at close range during the ‘Justice for Albert Ojwang’ protests, has been declared brain dead, his family has confirmed. Speaking to journalists at Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) on Sunday, family spokesperson Emily Wanjira said doctors informed them at midnight that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":201280,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,15522,16299,8096,6583,6852,19916,4688,430,14802,257,29377,662,2194,6855,254,26700],"class_list":["post-201279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boniface","tag-brain","tag-dead","tag-declared","tag-justice","tag-kariuki","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-mask","tag-news","tag-ojwang","tag-police","tag-protest","tag-shooting","tag-south-africa-today","tag-vendor"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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