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Residents use boats after Donyo Sabuk bridge collapsed

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For the past two weeks, residents of Kilimambogo in Kiambu County and their neighbors of Ol Donyo Sabuk in Machakos County have been unable to travel across the two counties after the bridge connecting the two areas counties was washed away by the swollen Athi River. [Gitau Wanyoike, Standard]

For more than a decade, residents of Kiambu and Machakos have been using the Athi River bridge in Donyo Sabuk to connect the two counties.

But for the last one month, movement between the two counties has been paralysed after the bridge collapsed due to flash floods.

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