Lucy Njambi.[Photo/Nation]

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Lucy Njambi, the 24-year-old woman who passed on after a physical assault was forced to swallow acid by her attackers, a postmortem report showed on Tuesday.

According to Dr Bernard Midia the forensic pathologist who conducted the autopsy at Kenyatta National Hospital, the chemical was found in her body.

He said that the specimens are with the government chemist for a toxicological screen to reveal the nature of the chemical used and confirm  if the substance had affected her internal organs such as liver and lungs.

Other specimens from the body are also being analysed to reveal if Njambi was raped before her death.

According to the report, the victim had been strangled because her neck and hands were bruised which shows that she had struggled in self defense.

The pathologist  did however state that Njambi died as a result of the chemical burns after the assault and that the degree of her burns at 60 per cent, contrary to earlier examinations reports that had indicated 75 per cent.

 Family representatives and detectives investigating the murder were present during the Tuesday afternoon exercise.

Njambi had been living in a rented apartment with her four-year-old son for a month after moving out of her husband’s house in Lavington after a family dispute.

According to a witness, she was abducted on Wednesday night last week by her husband Samwel Ndung’u the former MCA for Riruta Ward in Nairobi, and others, from her apartment in Thindigua, Kiambu County, and taken to an unknown place.

She would then be found  near a coffee plantation at Kamiti Corner in Ruiru naked and badly burnt.

A Good Samaritan took her to Kiambu Level Four Hospital where she narrated her ordeal to police officers.

She said her husband and three others had assaulted her raped her and drugged her body with an unknown substance.She died at Kenyatta National Hospital on Friday. 

Njambi's death caused outrage on social media as Kenyans online condemned the murder.

Her husband is the main suspect and is in custody but detectives are pursuing other suspects.