Kenya: Autopsy Reveals Italian Was Strangled to Death in Kilifi

10 December 2012

AN Italian investor killed by thugs in the exotic Bofa estate was strangled to death, a post-mortem report has revealed. The post-mortem conducted at Pandya Memorial Hospital in Mombasa on Saturday confirmed that Mario Blum, 68, was strangled.

This contradicted earlier reports by police that his death was as a result of suffocation due to pieces of clothes inserted into his mouth. Mario died on Thursday night after a six man gang attacked him and his associate Primo Serstoristio, 72, at their Kilifi house.

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