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Killings: Queries Rage After Autopsy
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- Published on Tuesday, 17 July 2007 23:32
Results of the post-mortem examination carried out on the bodies at the Kisii District Hospital show that the suspects were not shot while in their escape car as alleged by police since the bullet wounds were in the arm pits, the top of the head or directly in the face.
Though the official report was still being awaited from one pathologist Dr Nathan Buziba, the preliminary results were interpreted to mean that the suspects may have been shot either while surrendering or somewhere outside their alleged escape vehicle.
Dr Buziba is representing the Independent Medico-Legal Unit while a Dr Ogando is acting on behalf of the Government pathologist.
Police have maintained that the suspects were gunned down during an exchange of fire with officers after they defied an order to stop. But Kenya National Human Rights Commission official Khalef Khalifa yesterday said the preliminary investigations seemed to show otherwise.
The commission now wants the police officers who shot the suspects arrested while IMLU has called for the arrest of Kisii DC Abdullahi Leloon.
Police apparently fired 56 shots, out of which 11 were fired directly into the rear screen of the taxi carrying the eight.
A section of the public is interpreting this to mean that there was actually no attempt by the police to stop the suspects from escaping. The fact that the police car was not hit by the bullets also seems to puncture holes in the theory that there indeed was an exchange of fire.
Besides, while spent cartridges of the bullets fired by police have been recovered and successfully matched, none of those that were supposedly fired by the suspects have matched any of the guns that the police allegedly recovered from them.
