Nairobi, Feb. 17 -- The family of the late police officer Walter Nyankieya Nyamato who died in the United States is yet to know what killed him.

Advance team

The deceased, who served as an Inspector of Police, and nine other police officers were on an official trip as an advance team on a reconnaissance mission ahead of the intended controversial deployment of 1,000 police officers to Haiti.

Sleuths from the Metropolitan Police have taken over investigations into the sudden death of a man whose lifeless body was discovered in a hotel room a day after their arrival in Washington DC.

Government to Government arrangement

"I had instructed his brother, Wycliffe, who lives in Minnesota, to travel to DC, view his body and fetch for us the ...