Autopsy reveals Bashir Mohamed was tortured, strangled to death

An autopsy conducted on the body of Mohamud Bashir revealed that he was tortured before being strangled to death. [Courtesy]

Slain Somali-American businessman Mohamud Bashir Mohamed was strangled to death; an autopsy report has revealed.

The post mortem conducted on the body of the 36-year old by government pathologist Johansen Oduor indicated that he had bruises all over the body, a sign that he was ‘tortured before being brutally murdered.

"He died as a result of manual strangulation and there is evidence of torture, he also sustained a head injury due to blunt trauma,” the pathologist said.