By Salim Mutuma
Detectives have rescued 60 victims of human trafficking from an apartment in Tassia and arrested three suspects in connection with the incident.
Acting on intelligence leads, sleuths during a crackdown on illegal immigrants, traced the victims to a residential apartment within Tassia in Embakasi, Nairobi.
After securing the premise, the officers gained entry into the apartment, only to find the victims, inhumanely bundled up in one room.
The victims aged between 14 to 50 years were being forcefully trafficked from two countries neighbouring Kenya to the North.
Upon further inquiries, it was established that the 60 victims had been ferried to the location temporarily, as the traffickers sought alternative ways of transporting them outside the country undetected.
The three suspects were arrested on suspicion of being part of a larger human trafficking syndicate operating across the Horn of Africa.
They are Mohammed Omar Aden, 29, Halima Mohammed Osman, 43, and a 23-year-old Sala Yusuf.
The victims and the suspects are currently being held at different police stations in Nairobi pending legal procedures.
