An au­top­sy on the body of Zahra Ali, the preg­nant woman who was found dead in her Gas­par­il­lo home on De­cem­ber 27 has found she died from pla­cen­tal abrup­tion.

Her death has been ruled as nat­ur­al caus­es.

Ali, 28, was found by her six-year-old son in a bed­room on De­cem­ber 27 and was last seen alive the night be­fore.

She was buried on Tues­day af­ter an au­top­sy was done ear­li­er in the day.

Ac­cord­ing to Mayo.com, pla­cen­tal abrup­tion is an un­com­mon but se­ri­ous com­pli­ca­tion of preg­nan­cy. Pla­cen­tal abrup­tion is when the pla­cen­ta par­tial­ly or com­pletes sep­a­rates from the wall of the uterus. This can de­crease or block the ba­by’s sup­ply of oxy­gen and nu­tri­ents and cause heavy bleed­ing in the moth­er.

Al­though the cause is of­ten un­known, trau­ma or in­jury to the ab­domen or rapid loss of the am­ni­ot­ic flu­id that sur­rounds and cush­ions the ba­by in the uterus can be pos­si­ble rea­sons for pla­cen­tal abrup­tion.

When she was found dead, the po­lice were called in and ruled that her death ap­peared to be sus­pi­cous. Of­fi­cers or­dered that her body be re­moved to the Foren­sic Sci­ences Cen­tre for an au­top­sy to be con­duct­ed.

Ali’s rel­a­tives reached out to Guardian Me­dia on Thurs­day, say­ing de­spite the find­ings of the au­top­sy they do not be­lieve her death was nat­ur­al.

Her sis­ter, Sher­ry, claimed Ali was the vic­tim of vi­o­lence.

“We didn’t get any jus­tice for Zahra,” Sher­ry said.

Sher­ry said be­fore the au­top­sy was done on Tues­day, she and oth­er rel­a­tives were told there was a ‘mark’ across Ali’s stom­ach, lead­ing them to be­lieve she en­dured some vi­o­lence that had led to her death.

How­ev­er, Ali’s sis­ter lament­ed that her fam­i­ly could not af­ford to have a pri­vate au­top­sy done.

“They buried her on Tues­day, we had no one to turn to and had no mon­ey to re­quest an­oth­er au­top­sy,” she said.