A suspected serial m_rderer has confessed to m_-rdering 42 women over the last two years, according to Kenyan police, in a horrifying case that has prompted calls for enhanced measures to prevent gender-based vi0lence in the country.
Authorities alleged Collins Jumaisi Khalusha, 33, “lured, k!9lled, and disposed of 42 female b0dies,” just nine of which have been recovered.
He was detained in Soweto, east of Nairobi, at 3 a.m. local time on Monday, outside a bar where he had gone to watch the Euro 2024 soccer final, according to Kenya’s director of criminal investigations, Mohamed Amin.
Police said they discovered multiple mobile phones, identity cards, a machete thought to have been used to hack up the victims, industrial rubber gloves, rolls of sellotape, and a dozen nylon sacks similar to those found with the bodies.
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Over the weekend, large crowds came to watch the remains, many of which had been dismembered, being removed from the quarry, with some engaging in running confrontations with police.
Rumours that the bodies were linked to purported abductions of young protestors by security agents during recent street demonstrations have incensed many local residents.
So yet, the authorities have not indicated that the discovered remains are related to the protests.
