{"id":920945,"date":"2022-01-30T20:58:10","date_gmt":"2022-01-30T20:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/30\/officers-recover-body-parts-dumped-off-busy-highway\/"},"modified":"2022-01-30T20:58:10","modified_gmt":"2022-01-30T20:58:10","slug":"officers-recover-body-parts-dumped-off-busy-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/30\/officers-recover-body-parts-dumped-off-busy-highway\/","title":{"rendered":"Officers recover body parts dumped off busy highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"art-img row mx-md-0\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/ipkrbihmlcfgdyp3461f6d150cb963.jpg\" class=\"img-fluid w-100\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"bg-light mb-3 p-3 row mx-md-0\">\n<p><strong>Detectives believe the body parts could be that of a truck driver.<\/strong> [Courtesy]\n<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"card-text\">Police in Naivasha are investigating a bizarre incident after the public stumbled upon fresh body parts dumped off the Naivasha-Mai Mahiu road.\n<\/p>\n<p>This came hours after a trailer ferrying bitumen worth millions of shillings was found abandoned in Naivasha town with the seats covered in blood. <\/p>\n<p>Detectives believe the body parts could be that of a truck driver who cannot be traced two days after the trailer was found.\n<\/p>\n<p>The trailer which was ferrying 147 drums of bitumen from Mombasa to Nairobi was found parked in Naivasha town on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p>According to Naivasha OCPD Samuel Waweru, motorcycle operators informed police over the trailer and on inspection, it was established that the seats were covered in blood.\n<\/p>\n<p>He said that the cargo was also missing, raising fears that the driver was carjacked and killed\u00a0before his attackers made away with the cargo.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe cannot trace the driver and the owners reported that the trailer which was supposed to be ferrying the bitumen to Nairobi was missing,\u201d he said on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p>And as the officers were investigating the incident, the body parts were found in Sanctuary off the busy Naivasha-Mai Mahiu road.\n<\/p>\n<p>The OCPD said that the skull and legs were missing, raising fears that the body parts were eaten by wild animals from the nearby Mt Longonot National Park.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe that the recovered body parts and clothes belong to the missing driver and we have so far arrested two suspects in connection with the incident,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the body of a missing casual labourer has been discovered floating in a dam in Kinamba estate in Naivasha.\n<\/p>\n<p>The middle-aged man who worked in the local market went missing on Thursday before his body was found floating in the dam two days later. <\/p>\n<p>The OCPD confirmed the incident, adding that the body had since been retrieved and taken to Naivasha mortuary and an inquest file opened up.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are allegations that he was a drunkard and could have slipped and fallen into the dam but we are not taking chances and we have opened investigations,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n<p>In the past, motorists whose vehicles have broken down have been attacked by a gang known to operate along the busy Naivasha-Nairobi route. Naivasha is also known for sale of drugs and alcohol.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/article\/2001436016\/officers-recover-body-parts-dumped-off-busy-highway\">Source: The Standard Media Kenya<\/a> <a \"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Detectives believe the body parts could be that of a truck driver. [Courtesy] Police in Naivasha are investigating a bizarre incident after the public stumbled upon fresh body parts dumped off the Naivasha-Mai Mahiu road. This came hours after a trailer ferrying bitumen worth millions of shillings was found abandoned in Naivasha town with the [&hellip;]<\/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-920945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920945","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=920945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}