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Autopsies Show Migrants in Shipwreck Off Greece Died of Head Injuries ...

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By Yannis SouliotisATHENS, Feb 11 (Reuters) - Most of the 15 Afghan migrants who were killed off the Greek island of Chios last week when their dinghy collided with a coast guard vessel died of head injuries, not from drowning, autopsy results seen by Reuters show.A criminal investigation has been opened into the February 3 collision - one of Greece's deadliest migrant accidents in years - in which a coast guard vessel struck a dinghy carrying a…

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Autopsies show migrants in shipwreck off Greece died of head injuries ...

·United Kingdom
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Most of the 15 Afghan migrants who died last week across the Greek island of Chios, after their gonflable boat entered the colony with a ship of coastal nature, died because of...

·Romania
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Did a smuggling boat hit a coast guard ship or was it the other way around? A heated debate has erupted in Greece after the deaths of fifteen Afghans off the beaches of Chios.

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Forensic reports consulted by the Investigation Portal Documentnews.gr indicate that the death of Afghan migrants "was not due to neglect, in any of the 15 cases, but also to serious traumas which indicated a strong impact". According to the portal, autopsies exclude the seizure as a cause of death and refer first to "serious chronic encephalitis", in some cases, and "cervical lesions", others, while still awaiting the results of toxicological a…

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15 people died in the accident.

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