Kenyan police said they have launched an investigation after the mutilated bodies of six women were found on Friday in piles of garbage at a dump site in a Nairobi slum.
Police briefly fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse an angry crowd.
The crowd had stormed the police station near the site of the grisly discovery in Mukuru, in the south of the capital, an AFP journalist said.
“The alarm was raised following the discovery of six severely mutilated bodies, all female, in various stages of decomposition,” the Directorate of Criminal Investigations said in a statement.
“The bodies were wrapped in nylon papers and reinforced with nylon ropes.”
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Witnesses had earlier reported that the mutilated bodies of nine men and women had been found.
Homicide detectives and forensic officers searched the abandoned quarry, a water-filled dumping ground for rubbish, for clues.
“We need answers from police because this is something that needs to be investigated very fast,” said Lucy Njambi, who lives in Mukuru, Kenyan.
“It is shocking what I have seen. Bodies stashed in sacks and dumped at the dumpsite.”
The DCI revealed that preliminary investigations indicated all the victims suffered the same cause of death.
However, he did not provide further details.
The bodies have been taken to the city morgue to await postmortem examinations, it added.
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