Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations have taken into custody a Tanzanian national suspected of being involved in the gruesome killing of an 11-year-old girl in Kisauni, Mombasa County.
The child was reported missing on March 15, 2026, when she did not come home following Sunday school practice. Several days later, children playing in the Manyani area discovered her body hidden in a sack.
The sack contained the deceased minor, who had been tied with rope in what appeared to be an effort to hide the crime.
A postmortem examination conducted at Coast General Teaching and Referral Hospital showed that the child was sexually assaulted before being strangled to death.
Intensive investigations led DCI detectives to identify Anthony Juma, also known as Kipara, as the primary suspect. The Tanzanian national, working locally as a garbage collector without proper identification documents, escaped after the crime. Authorities recovered partially burned clothing and bedding from an abandoned residence he had abandoned.
Following an extensive search, Juma was apprehended on April 12, 2026. He appeared before the Shanzu Law Courts, where investigators secured a 21-day detention order to finalize forensic examinations and build a stronger case.
The case is set for mention on May 4, 2026.