IRNA -- Five cabinet ministers in charge of an inquiry into death of Iranian photojournalist Mrs Zahra Kazemi said on Sunday that she died from physical attack.
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President Mohammad Khatami assigned four cabinet members to inquire into her death last week. In a directive to Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Ahmad Masjed Jamei, Minister of Information Ali Yunessi, Minister of the Interior Abdolvahed Mousavi Lari and Minister of Justice Ismail Shushtari, the president sought to clarify every aspect the victim's sudden death. Minister of Heath and Medical Education Masoud Pezeshkian joined the team in the process of autopsy. "You should determine the reasons for her sudden death and who is responsible for it," President Khatami said in his directive in reaction to a statement from her family that she may have died of physical attack. President Khatami urged the four cabinet ministers to see whether there is a matter of culpability in the case. The report issued by the investigating committee said that Mrs Zahra Kazemi died of brain hemorrhage caused by a break in her skull. |