NAIROBI, Kenya, Mar 19 – An autopsy conducted on NTV journalist Rita Tinina showed that she died of severe pneumonia.
According to family spokesperson Timothy Njaga, the postmortem was done by the government pathologist Peter Ndegwa together with the family pathologist Dr. Michaka.
The family asked for privacy as they continued to mourn.
Rita’s body was discovered in her house in Kileleshwa on Sunday afternoon in a suspected epileptic attack.
Her colleagues at NTV said she was scheduled to be on duty on Sunday but failed to show up, and she could not be reached on the phone.
“It is unusual that she is not at work and no one knows her whereabouts,” one of her colleagues told Capital FM News, “unfortunately she was found dead in her house.”
Police said her house girl got concerned when she failed to wake up at 10am and called some of her friends.
It is Rita’s 8-year-old baby who notified the house girl that her mother was unresponsive, according to police.
A police report filed at Kilimani Police station indicates that Rita’s eldest sister Helen Sialu is the one who informed the police having been called by Robert Nagila who works at CGTN.
She immediately called an ambulance and paramedics declared that Ritah was lifeless before police were called to the scene.
According to Ritah’s sister, the deceased was epilepsy and had been suffering severe fever in the past week.
