A charred body of a man has been discovered at the Sunbeam Mall along Mfangano Street in Nairobi, a week after the building was burnt down during anti-Finance Bill protests.
According to a police report, the badly burnt and decomposing body was found by workers clearing debris on July 2.
The body is believed to be that of a man, and police who arrived at the scene took it to the city morgue for DNA analysis, autopsy, and preservation.
It is however yet to be determined whether the man whose body was discovered was a businessman at the complex or a customer.
Tragically, this is the second body found at the scene, as last week on June 27, the body of a 56-year-old man identified as Mathew Njoroge was discovered by the mall’s management as they combed through the burnt ruins.
Police were informed and promptly arrived at the scene where they discovered the burnt corpse in one of the rooms situated on the third floor of the building complex.
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Following the discovery, the body was then transported to the morgue where family positively identified the victim.
Sunbeam Mall is Looted & Burned
The Sunbeam Shopping Complex was one of the dozens of buildings vandalized and looted by protestors during the anti-finance bill demonstrations on June 25.
Several businesses within Nairobi CBD incurred massive losses due to the raids conducted by goons who took advantage of the chaos witnessed in the city.
Footage seen by The Kenya Times showed crowds of people walking into various shops and exiting with a range out household items including furniture, clothes and electronics.
Reports indicate that it was during this incident that the building was torched.
Uganda House Is Destroyed in the Anti-Finance Bill protests
Besides the Sunbeam Mall in downtown Nairobi, the Ugandan High Commission on Kenyatta Avenue, Nairobi, Kenya caught fire.
Footage captured from the scene showed unruly protesters vandalizing the newly renovated building before police officers intervened to disperse them.
Reports indicate that the building caught fire after police lobbed tear gas canisters into the building with the aim of forcing out looters.
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The fire was later contained by fire fighters, with reports indicating that the damage was primarily observed at the building’s ground floor.
The six-storey building was undergoing USh24b worth of renovations commissioned by the Ugandan Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The planned renovations had been in the works since the times of Angelina Wapakhabulo, Uganda’s former High Commissioner to Kenya, until her retirement in 2017, and continued under her successors Phoebe Otaala and the late Hassan Galiwango
The multi-level commercial building was reportedly torched, just four days before it was scheduled to be commissioned.
“While there is extensive damage to the property, we are grateful that there are no reported fatalities or serious injuries that have been identified so far,” said the Ugandan Foreign Affairs Principal Secretary Vincent Waiswa.
He also noted that despite the incident, Uganda’s relations with Kenya remained solid.
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