Two more bodies retrieved from River Yala as total count hits 29

One of the bodies was blind folded with a piece of cloth and its mouth gagged, with the second having a polythene bag wrapped over the head covering the face.

Speaking to Citizen TV on phone on Sunday, Yala OCPD Charles Chacha confirmed the retrieval of the bodies which were stuck between rocks in the river around Kina area in Yala County.

The bodies were discovered on Friday evening by a herder who had gone to water a flock of livestock at the river.

The discovery brings to 29 the total number of bodies discovered in the river since October last year.

So far, 12 families have already identified their kins from Yala sub-county morgue and buried them. 

The most recent identification was a Kenya Wildlife Services (KWS) chief inspector, Francis Isaac Oyaro, whose remains will be interred next saturday in uyoma, Rarieda constituency.

Oyaro had been missing since August 28 when he was traveling from Marsabit to Nairobi aboard a KWS vehicle.

DNA results last Thursday confirmed Oyaro’s body, after matching samples collected from his mother earlier this month.