Alarm As 7 More Bodies Retrieved From River Yala

Police have retrieved seven more bodies from River Yala raising alarm over mysterious disappearances  and killings.

Yala Sub-county Medical Superintendent Dr. Bruno Okal called on  members of the public to visit the hospital morgue and help in the identification of the bodies.

According to Dr. Okal, three of the bodies were recovered from River Yala and four along the river within the community, in the last two months.

The mortuary has a capacity of 16 bodies and serves three counties of Siaya, Vihiga and Kakamega by virtue of its location along the border.

He added that the facility is overstretched with unidentified bodies.

Early this year, 32 bodies were  retrieved from River Yala .Thirteen bodies were positively identified by their kin and collected for burial.

Some of the retrieved bodies around their necks and the fingers were severed or burnt in what authorities believe was meant to erase their identities.

A police  investigation  revealed that almost all of the men whose bodies were  retrieved from River Yala had a criminal past.

Human rights bodies linked the killings to  a brutal death squad with the resources to kill, transport and dump bodies continuously in one area as local police looked away.

The National Police Service however, denied accusations by human rights groups of being behind the killings.

Police had urged the public to give investigators time to find the killers.

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