{"id":13836,"date":"2020-09-03T18:04:57","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T18:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/kenya\/?p=13836"},"modified":"2020-09-03T18:04:57","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T18:04:57","slug":"mystery-of-unidentified-dumped-bodies-in-bomet-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/mystery-of-unidentified-dumped-bodies-in-bomet-county","title":{"rendered":"Mystery of unidentified dumped bodies in Bomet County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Author:\u00a0Gilbert Kimutai<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>AfricaPress-Kenya:<\/strong> While many police stations in Bomet County are busy either with drunk and disorderly cases, theft or burglar, Bomet Central Police Station is facing a never before crisis: unidentified bodies dumped in its backyard.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, police came across two-yet-to-be-identified bodies within a month, one of which is a sure murder victim.\u00a0And in the past nine months, 22 bodies have been dumped in the Southern Mau forest along Silibwet-Olenguruone Road.\u00a0According to authorities, persons involved in the crime, suspects and victims are from outside the county-making it more difficult to identify.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery of the bodies has sent shivers down the spines of Kitoben and Masese village residents.\u00a0\u201cWe are worried about the people coming here and dumping bodies at night. So far 22 bodies have been dumped in the same area over the last year,\u201d Paul Koech a resident told the Standard.\u00a0Koech said all the bodies that have been dumped in the area are murdered in a similar style.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost of them are stripped naked and strangled to death and it seems they are dropped from a moving vehicle just by the roadside,\u201d said Koech.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"list-group readmore my-3\">\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Kitoben sub-location assistant Chief Richard Cheruiyot said the latest body was found last Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Cheruiyot said the mutilated body was discovered by riders at the same location another body was found two weeks ago.\u00a0He said the first incident was reported exactly one year ago after a Chinese contractor completed works for the tarmac linking Bomet and Nakuru counties.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBarely a week after the Chinese contractor vacated the site, we witnessed the first case and we thought it was an isolated case but has persisted and now we have 22 cases,\u201d he said.\u00a0He said all the bodies that have been dumped in the area are non-locals, and that three of them were identified and collected by relatives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThree bodies were people from Kisii County who were murdered in unclear circumstances but were identified by relatives early this year and have since been collected,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Cheruiyot said one of the bodies had been buried by the County Government at Bomet cemetery. \u201cMore may be buried any time, the county has sought a court order to dispose of the bodies which are still lying idle at the mortuary,\u201d the chief said.<\/p>\n<p>Police encounters with unidentified bodies begun on January 13 this year when a naked body in a sack was dumped in the forest.\u00a0The latest was a week ago when boda boda riders stumbled on a mutilated body-covered in a black polythene bag.<\/p>\n<p>They said the situation had caused quite a scare among locals who are now forced to leave for their homes early.\u00a0Bomet County Police Commander Naomi Ichami said the incidents were under investigation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author:\u00a0Gilbert Kimutai AfricaPress-Kenya: While many police stations in Bomet County are busy either with drunk and disorderly cases, theft or burglar, Bomet Central Police Station is facing a never before crisis: unidentified bodies dumped in its backyard. Last week, police came across two-yet-to-be-identified bodies within a month, one of which is a sure murder victim.\u00a0And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":13833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,8],"tags":[5526,237,5525],"class_list":["post-13836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-homepage-english","tag-bomet-central-police-station","tag-murder","tag-unidentified-bodies"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mystery of unidentified dumped bodies in Bomet County - kenya<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"While many police stations in Bomet County are busy either with drunk and disorderly cases, theft or burglar, Bomet Central Police Station is\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/mystery-of-unidentified-dumped-bodies-in-bomet-county\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mystery of unidentified dumped bodies in Bomet County\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"While many police stations in Bomet County are busy either with drunk and disorderly cases, theft or burglar, Bomet Central Police Station is\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/mystery-of-unidentified-dumped-bodies-in-bomet-county\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"kenya\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-09-03T18:04:57+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2020\/09\/mystery_of_unidentif5f50ac4da93e1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"497\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"228\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/mystery-of-unidentified-dumped-bodies-in-bomet-county#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/mystery-of-unidentified-dumped-bodies-in-bomet-county\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Mystery of unidentified dumped bodies in Bomet County\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-09-03T18:04:57+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/mystery-of-unidentified-dumped-bodies-in-bomet-county\"},\"wordCount\":463,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/mystery-of-unidentified-dumped-bodies-in-bomet-county#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2020\/09\/mystery_of_unidentif5f50ac4da93e1.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Bomet Central Police Station\",\"Murder\",\"Unidentified bodies\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\",\"homepage-english\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/mystery-of-unidentified-dumped-bodies-in-bomet-county#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/mystery-of-unidentified-dumped-bodies-in-bomet-county\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/mystery-of-unidentified-dumped-bodies-in-bomet-county\",\"name\":\"Mystery of unidentified dumped bodies in Bomet County - 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