Police and medical experts in Kilifi County exhumed the body of an infant as part of investigations into allegations that a baby was switched at birth.
The exercise was conducted on Friday, August 7, 2026, at a homestead in Mariakani, following a court order issued by Mariakani Law Courts on August 5.
The parents had raised concerns after allegedly receiving the body of a female infant, despite claiming that they had been given a male child at birth.
The exhumation was led by Kilifi County Referral Hospital pathologist Dr Ruth Nyangi, alongside the Mariakani Sub-County Medical Superintendent, a Kaloleni Sub-County public health official,
investigators and security officers.
The body, identified as BFJ, was successfully exhumed and taken to Kilifi County Referral Hospital mortuary for further examination.
Doctors subsequently identified the remains and established that the infant was male, contradicting the earlier description of the body as female.
DNA samples were extracted from the remains and will be subjected to testing at the Government Chemist to establish biological parentage.
The body remains at the mortuary pending an autopsy, while investigations into the alleged baby switch continue.
Meanwhile, a five-year-old child has died after falling from the eighth floor of a building in Kware, Embakasi, Nairobi.
The incident occurred at Paris Plaza on Friday evening, with police receiving a report at around 9:10pm.
Officers from Kware Police Station, accompanied by detectives from DCI Embakasi, rushed to the scene and found the child lying on the ground.
The child was reportedly bleeding from the mouth and ears and was rushed to St Claire Hospital in Kware, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
The scene was processed by the Crime Scene Investigation team from Embakasi, after which the body was moved to Mama Lucy Hospital Funeral Home for preservation pending further investigations.
Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the fatal fall.
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