{"id":29999,"date":"2026-03-26T11:35:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T09:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=29999"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:35:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T09:35:22","slug":"mass-grave-discovery-in-kericho-sparks-probe-by-kenyan-authorities","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/mass-grave-discovery-in-kericho-sparks-probe-by-kenyan-authorities\/","title":{"rendered":"Mass grave discovery in Kericho sparks probe by Kenyan authorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Kenyan authorities are conducting an investigation in Kericho after discovering a mass grave containing more than 30 bodies, many of them children.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">A cemetery caretaker is in custody, and another suspect has been detained.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The exhumation was done after the police obtained a court order to retrieve 14 bodies that were initially believed to have been buried at the site.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Government pathologist told journalists on Tuesday evening that what they found was &#8220;quite unusual&#8221; with bodies &#8220;stacked in gunny bags&#8221;, after a day-long process that was interrupted by heavy rains.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">A post-mortem examination is expected\u00a0to begin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;Channel Africa&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":30000,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-29999","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Kenyan mass grave ","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/29999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/29999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30001,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/29999\/revisions\/30001"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=29999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}