Police in Kenya will on Wednesday dig up the body of a British tourist who died two years ago to establish details about her death.
Ms Luftunisa Kwandwalla, 44, from Leicester in the UK died in August 2020 at the building run by a controversial cult leader in Mombasa.
Cardiac arrest was initially cited as the cause of her death, but her family claims she was murdered and her body buried too quickly to conceal evidence.
A Kenyan court granted the family orders to have an autopsy done to see if she was killed. The exhumation of her body on Wednesday afternoon will be in the presence of some of her family members. It will be followed by an autopsy later in the day.
Kwandwalla arrived Kenya from the UK in August 2019 to visit members of her husband’s family. She was due to return to the UK several months later, but a coronavirus lock down prevented her from returning to Leicester where she was resident.
It is during that time that her family claimed she unknowingly joined a controversial cult in the coastal city.
The family claims that she was later murdered at the home of reclusive Muslim preacher accused of running a secret sect.