JUST IN: Authorities to Exhume Body of Teen Girl Killed for Rejecting Forced Marriage in Wajir 

  A Wajir magistrate court has granted the Directorate of Criminal Investigations permission to exhume the body of 17-year-old Gaala Aden Abdi, who was allegedly burned to death after refusing to marry a 55-year-old man. Gaala, a Somali refugee, was buried on March 22 at the Dagahaley Refugee Camp in Dadaab, Wajir County. The exhumation, which will be overseen by the Wajir West SCCIO, aims to conduct a repeat postmortem to determine the exact cause of death. Investigators also plan to extract samples for toxicology and DNA analysis. The Dagahaley Police Station will provide security during the process. Gaala’s tragic death followed her refusal to enter into a forced marriage. The
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