None of the nine bodies recovered from the Kware dumpsite showed signs of bullet wounds, either externally or upon further examination. Chief Government Pathologist Dr. Johansen Oduor stated that one of the bodies had head injuries while another was strangled. Dr. Oduor also noted that four of the nine body bags contained limbs, specifically lower limbs amputated from the knees downwards, comprising two right legs and two left legs.
“There was also a whole body of a female who we examined and we found that she had a head injury,” Dr Oduor said.
Also recovered are three other bodies, which were also part of human bodies, female, which were from the waist to the knee.
“There was an upper trunk from the waist upward, which we assigned the cause of death as strangulation. So this brings them down to a total of nine,” the pathologist said.
Dr Oduor said most of the bodies have various levels of decomposition from mild to severe, and said it would be difficult to assign a cause of death for those severely decomposed.
“Bodies which are severely decomposed, it becomes very difficult to assign a cause of death because there’s what is called post-mortem artifacts where so many tissues are gotten lost because of decomposition,” he said.
The bodies had been sawed off at the waist, and Dr. Oduor suggested this could have occurred post-mortem. One female body was intact and not decomposed, with examination revealing head injuries. Another body, consisting only of the upper trunk, was mildly decomposed but showed clear ligature marks on the neck, indicating strangulation. Some bodies were severely decomposed, making it difficult for the autopsy to determine the cause of death.
“Because of decomposition, some of them we might not be able to assign a cause of death, but the ones which are mildly or fresh, not so much decomposed, we can be able to assign a cause of death,” Dr Oduor said. The X-rays of the head and other body parts have been submitted to radiologists for analysis and interpretation to enrich the findings.
