Post mortem results for the Air Zimbabwe public relations executive, Shingai Dhliwayo, who was found dead in a bush in Botswana, have revealed that she was strangled to death. The post mortem was conducted at a Francistown hospital in the presence of a team of senior police officers from Zimbabwe who were dispatched to assist in probing the death of Dhliwayo.
The team was made up mostly of officers from Bulawayo and Matabeleland South provinces. Some of them left the country on Tuesday night. Chief police spokesperson Senior Assistant Commissioner Charity Charamba yesterday confirmed the latest developments and said investigations were still in progress.
“Post mortem has been conducted today (yesterday) and the results are; ‘Homicide as a result of a combination of strangulation and gagging’. Our officers who are being led by Superintendent Musasira were present when the post mortem was conducted and later on they got a debriefing from their counterparts about the results.
“Investigations on the case are, however, still in progress,” she said.
Family spokesperson Webster Taruvinga said the body was expected in Bulawayo last night and would be flown to Harare for burial.
On Monday, police and their Batswana counterparts with the help of the International Police Organisation (Interpol), intensified investigations to ascertain the cause of Dhliwayo’s death.
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