Mutilated bodies found a week after church massacre

By Tim Cocks

KIAMBAA, Kenya (Reuters) - Faith Wairimu broke down into sobs when she stumbled across her husband's remains in a field after days searching in vain.

His head and torso were missing.

"It's him, he's dead," the farmer said, pressing her fist against her lips and closing her eyes to stem the tears.

"I recognise those were his trousers."

A week after a mob torched a church and killed 30 people in the worst single attack of Kenya's post-election violence, families are still finding the mutilated bodies of loved ones in nearby fields.

Corpses piled up on Tuesday in a mortuary in nearby Eldoret, and columns of smoke rose from outlying villages looted and burned in continuing attacks by gangs of youths.

Two police officers lifted the hacked-off legs of Wairimu's husband into a sack and loaded it on to their pickup truck.

"God help us," muttered one officer, shaking his head.