Missing Kenyan activist Caroline Mwatha found dead

Six people have been held in connection with her death, Kenya's Director of Criminal Investigations confirmed. 

Ms Mwatha disappeared last Wednesday and efforts to find her produced the trending hashtag #FindCarolineMwatha on various social media platforms.

She was said to have worked for the Dandora Community Justice Centre (DCDJ), documenting extra-judicial police killings on the Dandora estate in the east of the capital, Nairobi. 

Amnesty International had tweeted about its concern for Ms. Mwatha on Monday and said it had still hoped to find her alive. 

Ferdinand Omondi a reporter for BBC in Nairobi says sources indicate that Ms. Mwatha's body is at the City Mortuary in Nairobi. Her family and colleagues say they had looked for her in many places in the past few days, including the mortuary where she was later found. 

A vigil was held for Ms. Mwatha in Nairobi on Monday.

A popular Kenyan rights group “Missing Voices” called her a "gallant human rights defender", and said she was last seen on Wednesday afternoon by a friend going into her home in Dandora. Another friend said she did not pick up the phone when called that evening.

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