Detectives are investigating the murder of a man whose decomposed body was
found lying in the cabin of a lorry days after his murder in Rongo Town, Migori county.
The body had also been doused
with acid before being abandoned at the scene on August 8.
It wasn’t until August 10 at
about 3 pm that guards working at the Rongo Taxi Yard said they were
disturbed by a foul smell from the lorry.
They were also attracted there
by flies that had been pulled to the Mercedes-Benz lorry by the rotting body.
It was then that they raised an
alarm.
Police were called to the scene and broke into
the lorry, where they discovered the body lying in the cabin behind the driver’s
seat.
The body had burn scars on the face, stomach and left leg, suspected to be from acid dousing.
Witnesses said
they saw the vehicle being parked at the scene hurriedly on Friday, August 8, night by two men who later disembarked and left.
The body was
moved to the mortuary pending autopsy and other investigations.
The police also
want to identify the body as part of the probe into the murder.
The motive of
the murder is yet to be established, police said.
Elsewhere in
Mwariki area, Nakuru County, a man was found murdered in Kwa Senior estate,
police said of the Sunday August 10 incident.
Police said
they found the body lying on the floor at a rented house whose door was open.
The body had decomposed by the time it was discovered
A team that
visited the scene said the body was lying in a pool of blood that was oozing
out from body openings with visibly swollen private parts.
Neighbours said
the deceased was working with a matatu sacco in the area and was last seen August
7 at his rented house doing laundry where he stayed alone.
According to
police, they did not recover any identification documents from the house or
deceased.
They found
three mobile phones in the house as they moved the body to Nakuru Annex Funeral
Home for preservation awaiting autopsy.
Police said they are pursuing good leads into the saga.
