Yala bodies: Family identifies kin missing for 5 months
By Edith. O. Virginia
Months after several bodies were retrieved from River Yala, the families of several persons reported missing have thronged the Yala Sub-County Hospital morgue in a bid to identify their loved ones.
On Wednesday, April 6, 2022, a family from Bomet County identified the body of a relative who went missing on November 17, 2021. The deceased, Mike Kipkorir Ruto, 37, was last seen in Kikopey, along the Nakuru-Gilgil highway on the said date.
According to the deceased's sister Joyce Mwei, Korir's vehicle was discovered abandoned, with his phone turned off at the time of his disappearance.
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File image of residents at the banks of River Yala. |Courtesy| YouTube|[/caption]
Following the reports of bodies retrieved from the river, the family visited the homicide office at the Directorate of Criminal Investigations headquarters and later conducted a DNA test, which yielded a 99 per cent match.
File image of residents at the banks of River Yala. |Courtesy| YouTube|[/caption]
Following the reports of bodies retrieved from the river, the family visited the homicide office at the Directorate of Criminal Investigations headquarters and later conducted a DNA test, which yielded a 99 per cent match.
The painful reality dawned on them when they positively identified the body at the Yala Sub-County Hospital mortuary, before transferring it to the Longisa mortuary in Bomet County ahead of his burial at Kimaya village in Chepalungu on Friday, April 8.
The family has urged the government to unravel the mystery surrounding the death.
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