Police in Kenya said they have launched an investigation after nine bodies were found on Friday in piles of rubbish at a dumpsite in a Nairobi slum.
Police briefly fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse an angry crowd at a police station near the site of the grisly find in Mukuru, in the south of the capital, an AFP journalist said.
The bodies of both men and women were discovered in plastic bags among mountains of garbage in the former quarry, witnesses told AFP.
“We need answers from police because this is something that needs to be investigated very fast,” said Lucy Njambi, who lives in Mukuru.
“It is shocking what I have seen. Bodies stashed in sacks and dumped at the dumpsite near the quarry.”
Nairobi police chief Adamson Bungei confirmed the discovery.
“Investigations have been launched to establish the identities and how these people were killed,” he told journalists.
