Kenyan woman’s body exhumed over unsettled dowry [Photos, Video]

Kisii, Nyamira – Residents of Nyamira County in Kenya were in shock on Thursday after the body of a woman who died before her dowry was paid was exhumed following a court order.

Police supervised the exhumation.

According to the area chief, Alice Kemunto Bundi was married for more than 6 years. Her in-laws confirmed that the dowry had not been settled.

“We had given them (Bundi’s family) one cow and KES 5 000 cash, though they were asking for KES 20 000,” one of the in-laws told NTV.

Bundi was four months pregnant at the time of her death. She was buried on Tuesday, only for her family to obtain an exhumation permit from a court on grounds that they were not involved in her burial arrangements.