The third phase of the Postmortem for bodies recovered from Shakahola is set to end on Tuesday as Pathologists conducted 22 more postmortems today.
So far there are nine bodies left at the Malindi Sub County Hospital Mortuary which will undergo postmortem after which the team will resume exhumation of bodies left in Shakahola forest.
Dr Johansen Oduor the Government Chief Pathologist while giving the daily briefing at the Malindi mortuary together with Homicide Director Martin Nyuguto said the number of bodies increased after one follower died in police custody.
“We have completed the postmortem for today and we have performed a total of 22 autopsies,” said the Pathologist.
Oduor said out of the 22 autopsies seven bodies were adults while 12 were children adding that they were unable to establish the age of two bodies due to the level of decomposition.
He said there were 22 females and eight males but two could not be identified their gender still due to their level of decomposition.
The pathologist said most of them died as a result of starvation in that 14 died of starvation while 8 bodies were unascertained because of the level of decomposition.
“As per the level of deterioration all of them -22- were severely decomposed, they were very decomposed I think because of the duration of time which they have taken from the time they died up to today,” he said.
He said so far, they have performed 87 postmortems in the third phase and are remaining with nine which will be completed tomorrow.
Initially, he said they had announced that 94 bodies had been exhumed but now the number has risen to 96 after they found two bodies wrapped in the same sheet while one person died in a police cell.
