City Park murders: Three people killed in one night
City Park is meant to be one of Nairobi’s sanctuary, a place of solace and refuge, but this image is quickly fading after security officers at the park woke up to the sight of two dead men and a woman at different spots. All the bodies had similar injuries to the head
City Park murders: Members of public at the scene where a male body was found on Saturday morning
The dead woman was identified as Grace Wambui. She was a hawker at City Market and her body was found in a small stream inside the City Park in Nairobi’s Parklands area. Passersby crossing the bridge noticed her body partly submerged in water and raised alarm.
Wambui who resided in Kahawa West left home at 9 am on Saturday as her normal daily routine, this time never to return. It has not been established whether she died at the City Park, or if she was killed elsewhere and her body dumped in the stream
A few meters from the stream, another body, this time of a male victim was found lying in a pool of blood with huge stones believed to have carried out the execution placed beside the body. Another male body was found on Saturday morning at the same spot and stones were placed next to it.
The third body was found at the entrance of the cemetery along Forest Road. The killing and the body was left in the very same way as that of the second murder. Police suspect the killings are done in a similar way whereby bodies of victims are placed on polythene bags, cartons or clothes. Area residents are calling on police to probe the deaths further before another life is lost
Of concern to the public was that five hours since the bodies were discovered, police were yet to collect the bodies or condone off the scene. They however attributed this to the fact that they had to photograph the bodies before taking them to the mortury
Police spokes person Zipora Mboroki said that the bodies might have been killed elsewhere and dragged to city park.
