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<\/div>At 6pm on Monday, members of the public alerted Juja police about the suspicious suitcase.<\/strong> [File, Standard]\n<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n Police are investigating the murder of a young woman whose body was, on Monday evening, found stashed in a suitcase and dumped near the GSU barracks in Kimbo, Kiambu County.\n<\/p>\n Juja Sub-County Police Commander Dorothy Miragusha told The Standard<\/em> that preliminary investigations suggest that the woman, aged between 18 and early 20s, was strangled. <\/p>\n \u201cThe body had been wrapped in a nylon sack and stashed in a black suitcase. Her hands were tied at the back, while her legs were bound together using a manila rope. A nylon string suspected to have been used in her strangulation was tied around her neck,\u201d a police report filed at the Mugutha Police Station under the OB Number 26\/17\/1\/2022 said.\n<\/p>\n \u201cShe had a deep cut injury on her left breast,\u201d says the report filed at 7:40pm.<\/p>\n Members of the public became curious when the suitcase remained on the road unclaimed for nearly two hours.\n<\/p>\n Juja police boss Miragusha says a message that takes the form of a revenge note was written on the woman\u2019s breasts, thighs and palms.\n<\/p>\n \u201cThe message said: \u2018bwana ya mtu sumu<\/em> (dating someone\u2019s husband is akin to taking poison)\u2019,\u201d said Miragusha. <\/p>\n The message had been written using a blue permanent marker pen.\n<\/p>\n Thus far, no arrests have been made in connection with the murder, police said.\n<\/p>\n Miragusha said the probe conducted so far indicates that the young woman was killed elsewhere and her body dumped in Kimbo.\n<\/p>\n The woman\u2019s body was moved to Nairobi City Mortuary as investigations continue.\n<\/p>\n Police will, on Tuesday, January 18, process her fingerprints to establish her identity. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n Source: The Standard Media Kenya<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" At 6pm on Monday, members of the public alerted Juja police about the suspicious suitcase. [File, Standard] Police are investigating the murder of a young woman whose body was, on Monday evening, found stashed in a suitcase and dumped near the GSU barracks in Kimbo, Kiambu County. Juja Sub-County Police Commander Dorothy Miragusha told The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-917237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=917237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}