A CASE OF DEATH
CAUSED BY A FRAGMENT OF GUNSHOT BARREL
Asirdizer M, Sari
H, Canturk G.
Journal of Forensic Medicine (Turkish), 1995; 11 (1-4): 65-70.
ABSTRACT
As usual in the world, in our country an increasing trend for the amounts of
death caused by the gunshot injuries is met, and the one we presented is a different death case occurred by shotgun accidentally.
A boy was hit by a fragment of the shotgun barrel mat exploded just at the moment
of firing off by his friend and died after ten days of hospital treatment This case is presented as a sample that exhibits
the complementary sides of autopsy and criminal investigation.
Key words: shotgun, injuring, death, autopsy.
