A murder inquiry is under way after Edwin Chiloba's body was discovered on a road in Uasin Gishu County, in western Kenya, on Wednesday
Police investigating the death of a Kenyan LGBTQ+ activist who was found stuffed in a metal box have arrested a suspect.
A murder inquiry is under way after Edwin Chiloba's body was discovered on a road in Uasin Gishu County, in western Kenya, on Wednesday. A motorcycle taxi driver said they saw the box being dumped at the side of the road by a vehicle with no licence plates and then told police at a nearby roadblock. When the box was opened by the officers, they found the decomposing body of a man, described as wearing women's clothes and identified as Mr Chiloba.In a message to the Reuters news agency, police said they had arrested a male in Eldoret who was the"main suspect" but their investigation continues.
Police do not yet know why Mr Chiloba was killed, but he has been attacked and assaulted for his activism in the past, according to his friend Denis Nzioka on Twitter.
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