Kenyan mother and daughter found dead in Finland after missing for five days

A Kenyan woman and her daughter who had gone missing for five days were found dead inside a mobile kiosk in Tahko, Finland.

On February 8, Catherine Beatrice Heiskanen and her daughter Patience Coppins, owners of the mobile restaurant Africana Samosa in Finland, went missing. They were last spotted in Lisalmi, which is located 400 kilometers north of Helsinki, Finland’s capital.

The deceased operated an Africana Sambusa food stand in Finland.

The bodies of the two ladies were discovered inside their food kiosk at Tahko five days after they vanished, the Finland Police Department reported last night.

Africana Sambusa food kiosk that was run by the deceased in Finland

“One of the women was in her forties and the other twenty years younger. The younger of the women is an entrepreneur who owned a food cart company,” said the police.

“The matter is being investigated as a cause of death investigation, meaning that no crime is suspected,” said the police adding that the bodies had no visible injuries or anything that could make them suspect that the women had been murdered.

Given the positions in which the two women’s bodies were discovered and the presence of a charcoal burner inside the kiosk, which was locked from the inside, the police stated last night that they believe the two women died from carbon monoxide poisoning.

Later today, a postmortem will be performed to determine the exact cause of death.