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Palestinian Coroner Agreed with Israeli Finding that Bus Driver Committed Suicide


(Ha'aretz) Ido Efrati - The death of bus driver Yusuf Hassan al-Ramouni, who was found hanged inside his bus in Jerusalem on Sunday, has been treated in the Palestinian media as a murder perpetrated by Jews. However, the Palestinian coroner who was present during the autopsy, Dr. Saber Al-Aloul, who was appointed by the family of the driver, concurred that the cause of death was suicide, said Dr. Chen Kogel, director of Israel's Abu Kabir Institute of Forensic Medicine. "Medically speaking, this is a clear-cut case. We did not find anything at all to indicate any foul play and all the findings are compatible with suicide," says Kogel.
2014-11-20 00:00:00
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