Autopsy on 21 bodies retrieved from River Yala kicks off

Autopsy on 21 bodies retrieved from River Yala kicks off

File image of a section of the infamous River Yala. PHOTO|COURTESY

A post-mortem exercise on the 21 bodies that were retrieved from the infamous River Yala kicked off on Wednesday with chief government pathologist Johansen Oduor leading the exercise.

The process is expected to take two days, with affected families flocking the Yala Hospital morgue to submit their DNA samples for matching in identifying their kin's bodies.

Human rights defenders who were present called on the government to consider setting up a DNA repository, to ease the identification of bodies in instances where relatives are unable to travel for the exercise.

The activists also sent in an independent pathologist, to oversee the post mortem exercise.

According to the families, the autopsy will be concluded in two days, but they might have to wait for two more weeks for consolidation and subsequent matching of the submitted DNA samples to the bodies.

Two of the retrieved bodies had been positively identified by family members.

So far, a total of 25 bodies have been retrieved from River Yala in the past three months, raising an uproar from various quarters over the wanton dumping of bodies into the river

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