Woman's body parts discovered in Nairobi estate

Police are investigating an incident in which body parts of a woman were discovered Umoja estate, Nairobi.

The hands, head and legs of an unidentified woman were found in a paper bag in a thicket near Fadhili Primary School. The woman's torso is still missing.

Buruburu DCI Jeremiah Ikiao said his officers were called to the scene by locals who had complained of a foul smell.

"Efforts to identify her and get those behind the murder are ongoing. We suspect the woman was killed elsewhere and the body parts dumped where they were found," Mr Ikiao said.

The team took fingerprints of the woman's hands. The body parts seemed to have been stored in a refrigerator before being dumped there.

They body parts were taken to a mortuary as investigations into the incident continue. No arrest has been made so far.

Elsewhere, a man has asked police to investigate how his children died in a private hospital in Ongata Rongai.

The man told police his wife prematurely gave birth to the twins at the hospital on Sunday. Since the institution did not have an incubator, nurses put the infants in a heater as they waited for an ambulance they had summoned, the man claimed. According to a report he made to police, the heater burnt the infants.

"By the time the twins were transferred to Mbagathi hospital and later to Kenyatta National Hospital, nurses there said they realised they had burns on their bodies probably from the heater where they were placed," said Kajiado police boss Tom Odera.

The infants died as they were being moved from Mbagathi to KNH. Mr Odera said they were investigating the case jointly with the Kenya Medical Board.

"The board will enable us know if there were any incidents of criminality and verify the claims by the parents," said Odera.

And a man was lynched in a botched robbery in Mathare slums. Police discourage against mob justice and want those arrested by citizens taken to the nearest police station as the law demands.