From New York Times:
Egypt’s
Medical Forensics Authority on Tuesday dismissed its spokesman after he
said last week that a poet and activist killed by police birdshot had
died from her wounds only because she was too thin. State news media
reported Tuesday that the Justice Ministry was opening an investigation
to determine whether or not it was true that more body fat might have
obstructed the pellets that pierced her heart and lungs, the injuries
that coroners said had caused her death. The poet and activist, Shaimaa
el-Sabbagh, 31, was taking part in a march to lay flowers in Tahrir
Square on Jan. 24 when the police fired birdshot and tear gas from a few
yards away. Prosecutors charged a police officer with a form of
manslaughter in the shooting but have not named the officer. The
spokesman for the medical examiner, Hisham Abdel Hamid, said in a
television interview on Saturday that other marchers that day survived
similar blasts of birdshot but that Ms. Sabbagh died because she was
“too skinny.”
References:
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Daily News Egypt
References:
NYTimes
Fox
Daily News Egypt
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