Anger in Kenya, as bodies of dismembered women found in Nairobi dump
- The corpses, wrapped in bags and secured by nylon ropes, had visible marks of torture and mutilation, police say
Kenyan police say they have launched an investigation after the mutilated bodies of multiple women were found in a sea of garbage at a dumpsite in a Nairobi slum, a macabre discovery that has horrified and angered the country.
Detectives have been scouring the abandoned quarry in Mukuru since the corpses of at least six women were found in sacks on Friday. Police on Saturday said that they had found more bags filled with dismembered female body parts, including severed legs and two torsos.
“We want to assure the public that our investigations will be thorough and shall cover a wide range of areas, including but not limited to the possible activities of cultists and serial killings,” the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) said in a statement.
Kenya was left reeling last year by the discovery of mass graves in a forest near the Indian Ocean coast containing the bodies of hundreds of followers of a doomsday sect, one of the world’s worst cult-related massacres.
The country’s law enforcement services are also under scrutiny after dozens of people were killed during anti-government demonstrations last month, with rights groups accusing officers of using excessive force and of abducting protesters.
Police on Friday had reported finding bodies of at least six women in Mukuru, while the state-funded police watchdog said nine bodies had been found, seven of them women.
