NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct, 31 – Acting Inspector General of police Noor Gabow on Monday hosted a delegation from Pakistan led by Pakistan High Commissioner to Kenya Saqlain Syedah.
Syedah was accompanied by three other delegates who recently jetted into the country as investigations into a shooting incident that left renowned Pakistani investigative journalist Arshad Sharif dead intensifies.
Pathologists from Pakistan recently conducted a second postmortem on the deceased’s body.
According to the Nation, the pathologists from the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences discovered a metal object lodged in his chest later said to be a bullet.
Investigators say it will help with the ongoing probe. The postmortem was conducted last week on Wednesday shortly after his body arrived in Pakistan.
The postmortem reports further state that the deceased died between 10 and 30 minutes after being shot in the brain and lung.
Kenyan authorities had said that the 50-year-old journalist died due to a gunshot between the shoulder and head.
As investigations in Kenya intensifies officers involved in the shooting have since been probed and their firearms confiscated by Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) detectives.
According to preliminary reports, the 50-year-old journalist was shot dead by police officers guarding a roadblock along the Kiserian- Magadi road in Kajiado county.
General Service Unit (GSU) officers are said to have been notified by Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) detectives from Starehe sub-county of a stolen vehicle and a child kidnapping incident, with the victim suspected to have been taken to the area.
Police are initially said to have thought the vehicle was being driven by the assailants in what now seems to be a case of mistaken identity.
At the point the deceased vehicle approached a police roadblock subject to an inquiry on their identity, they are said to have sped off forcing police to open fire.
Shocked by what had just happened, the deceased brother is said to have called his friend, a Pakistani national, Naqar Ahmed who resides within the vicinity in Tinga area, and upon arrival at his gate, he learned that his brother had died after fatally being shot on the head.
Police who arrived at the scene said that the deceased died after a bullet went through the back of his head exiting through the front.
Further scrutiny of the vehicle showed that at least nine bullets were fired at the vehicle, on the left side where the deceased was sitting, a bullet is said to have pierced through the windscreen.
Two bullet holes were also seen on the rear left back screen, one bullet on the rear right door, and four holes on the right side of the boot as one front right tire was also left deflated.
“I lost friend, husband and my favourite journalist today, as per police he was shot in Kenya,” Javeria Siddique tweeted about her husband Arshad Sharif’s death.
Police in their report later said that despite an alert of a stolen vehicle suspected to have been in the same area the deceased and his brother were in, their vehicle of registration number, KDG 200M was different from the stone one which is said to have borne the registration number, KDJ 700F.
Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif held a phone conversation with president William Ruto on Monday morning calling for speedy investigations into the tragic incident.
“Just held a phone conversation with Kenyan President William Ruto about the tragic death of Arshad Sharif in Kenya. I requested him to ensure fair and transparent investigation into the shocking incident. He promised all out help including fast-tracking the process of return of the most to Pakistan,” said president Sharif.
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