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Tension As Bodies Leave Mortuary

The East African Standard (Nairobi)
NEWS
July 25, 2004
Posted to the web July 26, 2004

By Ayub Savula and Judy Waguma
Nairobi

Tension was high in Kisumu yesterday as the bodies of three people shot dead by police during the July 7 riots in Kisumu were removed from the mortuary.

Relatives of the victims threatened to dump the bodies at the Kisumu Provincial Police Headquarters to protest against the killings but swift action by the Kisumu Town Clerk, Mr Aduma Owuor, saved the day. Council guards were deployed to cool down the relatives' tempers.

Police kept away from the mortuary as the bodies of the three, identified as Silvestor Owuor, 20, Dicken Otieno, 17, and Leonard Omolo, 19, were removed.

Nyanza provincial police boss Abubakari Jambeni told the Sunday Standard that only the area Provincial Commissioner, Mr Aggrey Mudinyu, could comment on the matter.

The relatives marched through the town streets waving twigs as they transported the bodies to various homes for burial, and demanded that the government settles a Sh23,790 bill at the New Nyanza Provincial General Hospital incurred by the deceased.

Investigations into the shooting, by a of top officers appointed by Police Commissioner Major-General Hussein Ali, are underway.

Eleven victims of the shooting are still recovering at the New Nyanza Provincial General Hospital.

 
 

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