A postmortem exercise conducted on the seven bodies that were exhumed in Mwingi on June 8, 2026 has revealed that some of them were strangled and others had stab wounds on the abdomen.
In the exercise the was led by Chief government pathologist Johansen Odour at the City Mortuary in Nairobi, it was established that two of them were strangled and three of them had a head injury.
The pathologists were however unable to ascertain the cause of deaths on two bodies since they were totally decomposed.
“Our final analysis of the bodies, they were decomposed significantly, all of them. Some parts of the body have become skeletal,” Odour who was accompanied from officers from homicide department stated
At the same time the experts collected DNA samples for in case relatives show up and want to find out if one of them is their person.
“They can go to a chemist for matching so that now we can be able to know who these people really are. We always take samples for toxicology because we need to be sure who these people are also and whether there are any toxins involved in their death,” Odour stated
According to the experts, the bodies appeared to have stayed for about three months before they were discovered in shallow graves.
The bodies were discovered on June 8 after information emerged about suspected human remains buried in shallow graves opposite Mwingi Catholic Church along the Mwingi-Garissa Highway.
