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Nairobi, Kenya – 12 July 2024
1. Various of a body being lifted up with ropes from the bottom of the quarry
2. Wide of crowd watching
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Fred Jiro, Rapid response officer at Arc Africa, a grass roots human rights group:
"Six bodies in total in the morning, five are female and one is male and most of them have got very serious injuries and cuts. We insist that now the police have to come and comb this place and do a thorough search."
4. Pan across quarry and people watching from cliffs
STORYLINE:
Police in Kenya say have arrested a man after the dismembered bodies of nine women were found in a quarry in the capital, Nairobi.
Police said the bodies were discovered after relatives of one missing woman claimed to have had a dream in which she directed them to search the quarry.
The relatives asked a local diver to help, and he discovered the bodies wrapped in sacks.
According to the head of the Directorate of Criminal Investigations, the 33-year-old suspect confessed to killing 42 women, including his wife, since 2022.
Police gave no evidence to support the confession of the man, who was expected to be arraigned in court on Tuesday.
Kenya’s acting police inspector general said officers in a nearby police station had been transferred to make way for investigations.
Locals had accused police of negligence due to the proximity of the quarry and the unresolved missing persons cases filed there.
A statement signed by human rights groups over the weekend urged Kenya’s security agencies to “to expedite investigations into all reports of enforced disappearances”.
There were initial concerns that the bodies could be linked to abductions and arrests of young people during recent anti-government protests.
AP video shot by Andrew Kasuku
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