River of sorrow: The mystery of bodies floating in Yala

Police retrieve the body of an unknown person from River Yala in Ulungo village, Siaya County. [Isaiah Gwengi, Standard].

From its source in Nandi Escarpment in the Rift Valley to Lake Victoria, where it empties its waters, River Yala appears to have become a depository of dead bodies.

Some of those who live a long the river say they have lost count of the number of bodies they have discovered floating in the river, some of them decomposing.