According to the police, Lilian Waithera, 46, who worked at the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF), collapsed and died on Kaunda Street, Nairobi.
Witnesses and police said as she was walking, she started to complain of chest pain on February 13, at about 5pm.
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She then collapsed and stopped breathing.
Her colleagues who were with her called an ambulance, which arrived quickly, but the responders declared her dead at the scene.
She had walked from her place of work in Upper Hill and was headed home when she collapsed.
On Monday, Nairobi police boss Adamson Bungei said officers are investigating the incident.
Her family on Tuesday transferred her body to the Kenyatta University Mortuary, where a post-mortem showed the cause of death to be shooting, after a bullet was found lodged in the lungs.
“The female NHIF staff who collapsed and died along Kaunda Street on Monday evening had been shot from an elevated angle. Autopsy revealed the bullet was lodged in her lungs,” police said in a follow up report on Tuesday.
“The bullet entered through the collar bone, having been fired from an elevated angle,” police added.
The bullet head has since been handed over to the police for ballistic examination.
Police have opened a file and handed over the case to detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) for further investigations.
Once upon a time we had a strike pale UoN and as usual we marched to mamlaka rd…as usual police responded immediately and engaged us…kidogo kidogo shots were fired, what we thought were mandatory warning shots…usually 2…so we heeded the warning and started running back towards the entrance to hall 11…we must have sprinted for some 50metres when suddenly one of us just collapsed on the tarmac and when we checked him dude was bleeding profusely…kumbe the warning shot had been fired directly at us…and thats how we lost our comrade
It is possible to be shot and not bleed, for instance if the subcutaneous fat seals the entry wound. The report says the bullet hit her collarbone, which absorbed most of the kinetic energy, before entering her lung. If I could guess, it was a pneumo- or hemo-thorax which killed her.
She was stupid being a whistle blower in this shithole…if you want my help in blowing any whistle Kenya… kitu ya kwanza ni unihamishe majuu new identity the works(kenei alipatikana kweli)
She was a whistle-blower…na main suspect alia chiliwa juzi. That’s no stray bullet. A Sniper and a silencer must have been involved…but don’t expect anything from Dee Maina if it was a hit…