ISLAMABAD (Web Desk) – The post-mortem of Reuters’ Bureau Chief, the 34-year-old Russian journalist Maria Golovnina who was covering Pak-Afghan region, has been conducted by PIMS (Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences).
According to the spokesperson of PIMS, Doctor Waseem Khawaja, one or two days will be needed in compiling the report though apparently it is a case of death due to natural causes.
Dr Waseem added that forensic reports of some parts of her body had been sent to Forensic lab for further examination.
On one hand the statement released by her employer, Reuters news agency, has not hinted at any foul play nor asked for any investigations into her death. While on the other hand, Dunya newspaper reported on Tuesday that some mysterious blueish marks have been found on Maria’s neck, citing unnamed sources at PIMS.
Earlier, she was found dead under mysterious circumstances at her F-8 Sector office-cum-residence in Islamabad on Monday. Her husband initially did not let the doctors at PIMS carry out an autopsy to find the cause of death. The Russian Embassy in Islamabad had to be get involved for permission from Maria’s parents in Russia.
Ms Golovnina joined Reuters at the age of 24 and as far as her LinkedIn Page suggests, Reuters has been her only employer in the last 10 years.
Ms Golovnina started working for Reuters from Tokyo in 2001 and remained associated with the agency for 13 years, till her death. She reported from London, Singapore, Moscow, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Russia, Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya before being made the bureau chief for Afghanistan and Pakistan in 2013.
