Mortuary facility in Nairobi where bodies undergo postmortem examination and where relatives search for missing persons.
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Audio By VocalizeA postmortem on the seven unknown bodies that were exhumed in Mwingi will be conducted in Nairobi next week, an official at the City Mortuary has said. …
Postmortem on seven bodies exhumed in Mwingi set for next weekA seven-year-old Grade One pupil from Nairobi's Mukuru kwa Njenga estate disappeared on July 11 and was later found murdered and burnt beyond recognition along Maasai Road in Embakasi. Her mother alleges that Villa Police Station refused to provide an official report number when she initially reported the disappearance.
14 hours ago · Citizen Digital →
A seven-year-old Grade One pupil from Nairobi's Mukuru kwa Njenga estate disappeared on July 11 and was later found murdered and burnt beyond recognition along Maasai Road in Embakasi. Her mother alleges that Villa Police Station refused to provide an official report number when she initially reported the disappearance.
14 hours ago · Citizen Digital →
A Grade 1 pupil, Jedida Mwende, disappeared in July 2026 and was later found murdered and burnt along Maasai Road in Embakasi. The mother alleges police negligence in response to the initial missing person report and faces a family dispute over DNA identification.
22 hours ago · Citizen Digital →
An IPOA forensic expert told the court that police delayed taking the late Albert Ojwang to Mbagathi Hospital by 24 minutes on June 8, 2025, after departing Central Police Station where he had allegedly been assaulted, with CCTV footage showing the vehicle arrived at the hospital at 1:35 a.m., where Ojwang was pronounced dead on arrival.
22 July 2026 · Citizen Digital →
The Director of Public Prosecutions Renson Ingonga told a Kibra court that evidence indicates teacher Albert Ojwang was beaten with a blunt object and strangled to death in a planned killing, contradicting initial claims he hit his head accidentally. Evidence shows CCTV footage at Nairobi's Central Police Station and data from the Independent Police Oversight Authority were deleted and formatted to hide evidence.
20 July 2026 · The Standard →
A driver and two passengers were killed on Saturday after their vehicle lost control on Raila Odinga Road, veered off the road, and stopped at the staircases of a footbridge near Riara University before catching fire. According to circulating video clips, the vehicle caught fire within minutes, burning the victims beyond recognition.
11 July 2026 · The Standard →
A 36-year-old man was struck and killed by a locomotive near Mlolongo Railway Station after allegedly sleeping beside the railway tracks. Police are also investigating separate incidents including the defilement of a six-year-old girl in Embu County and a violent highway robbery in Webuye.
8 July 2026 · The Standard →
Two people died after a section of a building at Gikomba Market in Nairobi collapsed on Thursday evening. The structure had been weakened by a fire that gutted part of the market on Sunday, and witnesses said young men were dismantling scrap metal from the damaged building when it caved in.
26 June 2026 · Citizen Digital →
Residents of Mwiki in Kasarani, Nairobi, accused police of slow action after they recovered a decomposing body of a young girl from the Nairobi River on Thursday, two weeks after residents first reported spotting it. Residents said they repeatedly notified authorities but received little response before the retrieval.
19 June 2026 · The Standard →
Postmortem examinations of remains recovered from Mwingi in Kitui County revealed eight victims, two strangled, one stabbed, and three with severe head injuries. The Government Pathologist said victims are believed to have died up to three months before discovery.
16 June 2026 · Citizen Digital →
A postmortem on seven bodies exhumed in Mwingi revealed that two victims were strangled, three had head injuries, and some had abdominal stab wounds. The chief government pathologist said the bodies appeared to have been in shallow graves for about three months; DNA samples were collected for victim identification.
16 June 2026 · The Standard →
Seven unknown bodies (six men and one woman) exhumed in Mwingi will undergo postmortem examination in Nairobi next week, with samples to be collected for identification. Four bodies are relatively well-preserved while three are decomposed beyond recognition; some people have been searching the City Mortuary for missing relatives from Mombasa and Machakos.
13 June 2026 · The Standard →