By A Correspondent- The body of a Bulawayo Lodge employee was found in one of the lodge’s rooms with a deep cut in the forehead and his hands tied on his left leg.

Edwin Ndelelo Nyathi who was a caretaker in Bulawayo’s Matsheumhlope suburb’s body was found on Tuesday and his family said the autopsy report said he might have died on Saturday as his body was already decomposing when his body was discovered.

His brother spoke to the publication and said:

My brother was brutally murdered.We don’t know who could have done it. He lived alone at the lodge where he had been working for the past 15 years. We suspect it could have been a robbery gone wrong. Although we did not see his body, we were told that both his hands were tied to his left leg.

He also had a deep cut in his forehead and was found in a pool of blood and there was also a brick in the room,A neighbour stumbled on his body before informing the police on Tuesday. His body was already decomposing and the postmortem report suggests that he could have been killed on Saturday.

Nyathi was not married and he had no children.-statemedia