Kenya human rights commission to investigate alleged killings on pineapple farm

Commission ‘concerned and disturbed’ by claims of lethal violence by security guards on Del Monte farm

Kenya’s national human rights body has launched an investigation into allegations of killings and assaults by security guards at a Del Monte pineapple farm in Thika that supplies most British supermarkets.

A joint investigation by the Guardian and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) published earlier this week uncovered claims from villagers of violence by guards at the plantation, including three alleged killings in the last four years.