Autopsy shows three Eastleigh kin were murdered

A section of Eastleigh community protested over the murder of three family members on October 24, 2024. [Pkemoi Ng'enoh, Standard] 

Two of the three Eastleigh family members were brutally tortured while the other was suffocated before their bodies were dumped in different locations, an autopsy has revealed. 

Government Pathologist Johansen Oduor who led the autopsy exercise at Nairobi City Funeral Home said that Waris Daud and her niece Amina Abdirashid faced severe torture that led to their death. 

According to Oduor, Daud’s daughter, Nuseiba Dahir, was suffocated. 

The autopsy revealed that Daud suffered severe injuries to the neck vessels and the trachea and was badly bruised on the face. 

At the same time, she had her hands chopped off, with Oduor saying that they had taken samples for further analysis to ascertain if the hands truly belonged to her. 

“There are hands which have been found also in a separate scene and looked like hers. We primarily think they were hers. We’ve just taken samples for DNA just to be sure,” he said. 

He said that the 38-year-old woman also had the skin of her mutilated arms peeled off. 

For Amina, 22, her life was cut short due to excessive bleeding from multiple stab wounds with one of the stabs getting “right into the heart.” 

Daud’s 13-year-old daughter, Nuseiba Dahir, Oduor said, was suffocated to death with signs of having been raped before being smothered, evident.  

“Upon looking at the body, what I found was that she died because of smothering. Smothering is blocking the airway so that you cannot breathe. Then you die because of asphyxia,” he said. “And we thought that there was some evidence which looked like rape and we’ve taken samples for analysis,” he added. 

The bodies of the three were discovered on Tuesday hours after they had gone missing on Monday. Amina’s body was discovered on Mwambo Road, Bahati and Dahir’s was found in Parklands while her mother’s body would later be found in Machakos. 

Amina’s brother, Yusuf Abdirashid urged the government to move swiftly with investigations to bring the perpetrators to book. 

“We are demanding justice for our family members. Let the government conduct investigations and reveal those who committed this heinous act,” he said. 

The gruesome murder of the three has sparked outrage among members of the public even as a section of leaders and human rights activists weigh in, expressing concerns over the surge in brutal killings across the country. 

Vocal Africa’s Executive Director Hussein Khalid urged the public to share information that may help security and investigative agencies unravel the horrible killings. 

“These kinds of atrocities where people are slaughtered like animals cannot continue happening in our community,” said Khalid.