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Autopsy: Men killed near barracks were tortured

Angry locals mill around a scene where bodies of men suspected to have been killed during confrontations with the military in a maize farm in Kamagut, Uasin Gishu yesterday November 26, 2023. [Stephen Rutto, Standard]

Four young men killed near the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) Recruits Training School in Eldoret last Saturday were tortured to death, an autopsy report revealed on Thursday.

A postmortem conducted by Government Pathologist Johansen Oduor found that the slain men, Cornelius Kipkoech, Daniel Kiprotich, Kenneth Kipkemei and Shadrack Kipkemei, were tortured.

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