Breaking News: Shocking Details emerge in the mysterious case of Dr. Laban Langat Murdered inside Hospital
Breaking News: Shocking Details emerge in the murder of Dr. Laban Langat: Detectives attached to Directorate of Criminal Investigations are investigating circumstances surrounding the mysterious murder of an intern physician at the Nakuru Level Five Hospital.
The body of the medic, Laban Kiptoo Langat, 26, attached to the hospital’s Margaret Kenyatta Mother-Baby Maternity wing, was found by security guards, in a trench outside the facility, at 7am on Saturday.
Earlier, A friend informed the detectives that he talked with Kiptoo through WhatsApp messages informing her that he would be attending a rugby game at the Nakuru Athletic Club on Saturday morning.
The friend stated,”We spoke until 11pm on Saturday, I was so tired and therefore l dozed off. I woke up at around 4:45 am and I decided to respond to some of his last messages, from the previous night, but l was shocked,l got no response. I was worried, but l decided that l would call him later so that we talk,”
“He had not mentioned to me that he would be going out on Saturday night as every time he would go out he would tell me. I learned of his death later on Saturday morning, through a friend, that his lifeless body had been found in a trench. This left me deeply shocked and l am yet to come to terms with the incident,” she added
According to the post mortem report, Kiptoo’s diagnosis is asphyxia secondary to manual strangulation, with evidence including bruises on the neck area, 5 bruises on the zygoma, hematoma on the pharynx.
He also had deep injuries on the lumbar area bilaterally, a deep crush injury on the lower lip suggestive of a blow with high force, temporal soft tissue hematoma with attendant temporal contusion.
Notably, the Autopsy report indicated 2 occipital lobe contusions with frontal counter-coup lesions, bruises on the dorsal aspect of the hand bilaterally suggestive of blows, and lung contusion.
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