None of the nine bodies from the Kware dumpsite had injuries which could be assigned to a bullet, externally or even from the examination of bodies.

The Chief Government pathologist Dr Johansen Oduor has said one of the bodies had head injuries while another was strangulated.

Dr Oduor said among these nine body bags, the contents of four of them were limbs, lower limbs, which were amputated from the knees downwards, and there were two right legs and two left legs.

“There was also a whole body of a female who we examined and we found that she had a head injury,” Dr Oduor said.

Also recovered are three other bodies, which were also part of human bodies, female, which were from the waist to the knee.

There was an upper trunk from the waist upward, which we assigned the cause of death as strangulation. So this brings them down to a total of nine,” the pathologist said.

Dr Oduor said most of the bodies have various levels of decomposition from mild to severe, and said it would be difficult to assign a cause of death for those severely decomposed.

“Bodies which are severely decomposed, it becomes very difficult to assign a cause of death because there’s what is called post-mortem artifacts where so many tissues are gotten lost because of decomposition,” he said.

The bodies had been sawed off from the waist with Dr Oduor saying they could have happened after death. One of the female bodies was intact and not decomposed and the examination revealed that she had head injuries.

Another body, which was only the upper trunk, was mildly decomposed but clear marks of ligature could be seen on the neck, and indication that the deceased had been strangulated.

Some of the bodies were severely decomposed and the autopsy may not reveal the cause of death.

“Because of decomposition, some of them we might not be able to assign a cause of death, but the ones which are mildly or fresh, not so much decomposed, we can be able to assign a cause of death,” Dr Oduor said. The X-rays of the head and other body parts have been submitted to radiologists for analysis and interpretation to enrich the findings.