A Pathologist at the Royal Victoria hospital Dr Omar Sam told the coroner's
inquest that live bullets killed seven people whose bodies he performed
autopsies on.    Dr Sam confirmed this to the coroners inquest at the high
court in Banjul yesterday as he gave his report on seven out of 8 bodies he
examined following the bloody student riots of April 10 and 11th.   He
explained that he carried out post mortem examinations on the bodies of
Momodou Lamin Njie, Kalisco Preira, Karamo Barrow, Omar Barrow, Momodou
Lamine Chune, Lamin A. Bojang, Reginald Carrol and Ousmane Sabally.   Dr Sam
indicated most of the deads suffered gunshot wounds on their chests, ribs and
abdomens as well as excessive bleeding, heart and lungs fractures amongst
others which it said were caused by high velocity weapons.    He however told
the coroner that the body of Ousman Sabally was buried in Kerewan Samba Sira
in CRD and was exhumed twelve days after for  post mortem to be carried out.
 Dr Sam could not confirm whether the victims died at the spot of the
shooting but described their deaths as sudden.    He also said that one of
the corpses was not identified.   More evidence is expected from the post
mortem report of Dr Omar Sam.    The Coroners inquest was set up to look into
the cause of death of 12 people which occurred during students demonstrations
of Monday 10 and Tuesday April this year.   Sitting continues today.


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