Detectives are investigating the discovery of human skeletons on a piece of land in a village in Ikutha, Kitui County.
A family told police they were
clearing bushes on their farm when they found the skeleton in Yaana village.
Police visited the scene and declared
the remains of the body seemed to have stayed under a tree for months and may have been
eaten up by vultures and wild dogs in the area.
The remaining parts, including the skull, ribs, spine and the pelvic bone, were taken to the Mutomo Level
Four Hospital mortuary awaiting identification and postmortem, police said of
the September 18 incident.
Elsewhere, a mob stoned to death a
suspect after a botched robbery in the Kasarani area, Nairobi.
The suspect is said to have been in
the company of two other accomplices and were on a robbery spree when an alarm
was raised.
Locals said the attacks took place behind the stadium on Wednesday evening, before an alarm was raised, alerting members of the public who responded there.
They caught up with one suspect and
stoned him to death as his accomplices escaped for their safety.
Police arrived at the scene and found
a dagger lying next to the body, and it is believed it was used in his killing.
The body was moved to the mortuary
pending identification, an autopsy and investigations.
In Kimilili, Bungoma County’s Daraja Mungu village, one Moses Wanyama, 35, was stoned to death over claims of being a thief.
The body with multiple injuries was moved to the
mortuary pending an autopsy.
Pundits argue that the rise of such incidents is linked to the perception by the public that the police do not take measures to ensure their safety at large.
There is also a belief that
the suspects will be released once arrested by the police or taken to court and
later come to commit the same offences.
Police, however, encourage the public to surrender suspects for processing and action at large.
This is because most
of the suspects are framed up and killed for selfish gains by some parties,
police say.
Police have in the past arrested and charged suspects with serious offences after being involved in mob lynching incidents
