Fresh details have emerged on the abduction and subsequent murder of three family members who went missing before their bodies were discovered.
The three family members, a mother, her daughter and a girl, were abducted from Eastleigh in Nairobi earlier this week before they were killed and their bodies dumped in different places within Nairobi and Machakos counties.
As investigators carry on with analysis of events surrounding the killings, an autopsy report has revealed that the three were brutally murdered.
The findings show that Dahabo Daud Said, Amina Abdirashid Dahir, and Nusayba Abdi Mohammed were hacked, stabbed and smothered to their deaths by unknown assailants.
Senior government pathologist Johansen Odour on Friday morning conducted autopsies on the three bodies at the Nairobi City mortuary, revealing the gruesome nature of their deaths.
After close to 4 hours, Oduor who was accompanied by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) Homicide Director Martin Nyabuto was ready with the report on the cause of death for each of the three victims.
Oduor described the horrid manner in which the killings happened.
“Abdi Mohammed died because of smothering, we found out that there was also some evidence which looks like rape. The second body was of Amina Abdirashid had multiple stub wounds. Then the third one was Dahabo, she had her hands chopped off, her neck almost severed.
He added, ” There were hands which have been found also in a separate scene, but upon trying to reconstruct and looking at the body of the late Dahabo, looks like the hands were tied.”
Autopsy conducted on bodies of three Eastleigh women
Following the autopsy, detectives are still pursuing crucial details into the murder having interrogated a suspect and a possible witness who has information they believe will lead to a breakthrough.
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CCTV footage of the last moments before the killings is among key clues the detectives are planning to use in piecing together details of the murder.
The CCTV footage obtained from an apartment where the victims had rented in Eastleigh shows Amina and Nasiiba getting into a lift at 12:53 p.m.
In the video, the girls can be heard mentioning the name of a suspect. Investigators believe at this time their abductor had contacted them through their mother’s mobile phone asking them to come and pick her.
Minutes later, a motor vehicle arrived, picked them and drove away.
On Tuesday at 4:30 in the morning, the vehicle was captured by surveillance cameras in Parklands dropping a body along a road before immediately taking a U-turn and left.
Few hours later, locals stumbled on a mutilated human body that was confirmed to be that of Amina Abdi Rashid as the vehicle was recovered near the Wakulima Market in Nairobi.
CCTV footage within the area captured how the vehicle was ditched at the scene, but the driver left to an unknown place.
Investigators piecing together events into the killings have, however, arrested a suspect who is said to be an accomplice to the murder.
Suspect arrested
The suspect is said to have received some money from families of the victims as the abductors demanded ransom.
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At some point he was in communication with the main suspect at large, with police revealing that the suspect used one of the victim’s SIM cards in his mobile phone.
At the same time police are investigating a statement from a lady of Somali origin who says she was also abducted alongside the three women who were killed.
In her statement to the police, the woman claims that she was in the room the three family members had been locked in moments after they were abducted.
She says the abductors demanded a ransom to set them free, with her family managing to raise close to a million shillings which was deposited in an Ethiopian bank account with the abductors releasing her after the transaction.
Police are probing the claims to understand if she is an accomplice in the murders or indeed a victim.
Vocal Africa Director General Hussein Khalid has called upon any members of public with information on the murders to collaborate with investigators.
“So, we are asking members of the public particularly the Eastleigh community anyone with any information please do not be afraid come forward, ” said Hussein Khalid.
“If you can’t go to the police, come and see us go to the family we will ensure you know you are protected but you know these kinds of atrocities where people are slaughtered like animals cannot continue happening in our community.”
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