Kenya’s police watchdog has launched an inquiry into possible police involvement in mutilated bodies found dumped in a rubbish tip in the Mukuru slums of Nairobi.
Police initially said the severely mutilated bodies of six women tied up in plastic bags were found on Friday.
The corpses had been dumped in a landfill site in an abandoned quarry in Mukuru, in the south of the capital.
But the Independent Police Oversight Authority (IPOA) said in a statement later that the remains of at least nine people had been recovered, seven of them female, and called for swift investigations to identify them.
“The bodies, wrapped in bags and secured by nylon ropes, had visible marks of torture and mutilation,” it said, noting that the rubbish tip was less than 100 metres from a police station.
Images on local television showed people using ropes to heave sacks containing the human remains from rubbish-strewn water in the quarry.
