No burial for murder victims

Murder victims in Zimbabwe cannot be buried until the country’s only forensic pathologist returns from a month-long leave in Cuba.

This emerged following the murder of a Harare man from Mbare last Friday whose family has been advised that they could only bury their relative next month upon the return from leave of government’s only forensic pathologist, Cuban Gabriel Aguero Gonzalez.

Gonzalez, who was seconded by his government to work in Zimbabwe on a bilateral arrangement, is required to carry out a post-mortem on the suspected victim of murder to ascertain the cause of death as part of police investigations.

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