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American-based firm Airbnb Tuesday mentioned two flats the place two girls had been murdered Nairobi’s Roysambu and South B estates weren’t booked with them.
Airbnb expressed shock over the occasions whereas on the identical time emphasizing that the incidents are unrelated to lodging booked by means of the platform.
It mentioned in an announcement the places the place the murders occurred had no bookings registered on the platform for the reported dates, and that individuals of curiosity in each instances didn’t have registered accounts.
“Over the previous week, Kenya has witnessed two heinous crimes within the metropolis of Nairobi. We’re saddened and shocked to study of those occasions, and our ideas are with the victims’ family members throughout this troublesome time,” reads the assertion printed on Airbnb’s web site.
“We will verify that neither of those occasions had been linked to stays on Airbnb. We wouldn’t have accounts registered to the names of the accused.”
It added Airbnb is now a noun and a verb, and for a lot of, a time period used to explain a whole business which is what we now have seen within the reporting in Kenya over the previous week. “As a enterprise constructed on belief, questions of safety on Airbnb are extremely uncommon and we implement measures to take care of security on the platform in Kenya.”
The primary incident occurred at an residence in South B the place socialite Starlet Wahu Mwangi was discovered murdered on January 4.
Police stories indicated that the deceased, 26, arrived at Papino Flats a day prior within the firm of a person, since recognized as 34-year-old John Matara.
Video surveillance from the residence captured Wahu and Matara coming into an elevator throughout the residence block earlier than disembarking on the fourth flooring and continuing to their room which they’d reportedly rented for an evening.
Police later found the deceased’s lifeless physique mendacity in a pool of blood contained in the residence after the proprietor instructed authorities that Matara swiftly left the premises carrying blood-stained garments.
Ten days later the physique of a 24 yr previous lady was discovered dismembered and dumped in a dustbin in Roysambu.
The proprietor of the property, Risper Muthoni, mentioned she obtained a name from the residence’s caretaker who found the mentioned physique elements.
The lady’s stays have since been positively recognized by her kin who declined to speak to media till police conclude investigations into the incident.
Police are investigating the homicide incidents.
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