Police are investigating the death of a BBC journalist Kate Mitchell whose body was found lying at her hotel room in Nairobi on Friday. Preliminary investigations show the journalist was strangled to death by a man she was seen with earlier and at the same hotel in Kileleshwa area. They found Mitchell lying dead inside the room and noticed some broken window chippings that were lying on the floor. The journalist who had returned to the country was attached to BBC Media Action's office in Ethiopia. An internal communication to BBC staff in Nairobi says the circumstances of her death are not very clear at the moment.

Source: The Star November 22, 2021 04:01 UTC