Officer’s Autopsy Raises Questions

An autopsy on a police officer killed during campus violence Monday cast doubt on reports that he was clubbed to death by students and supported student claims that he was killed by a police vehicle. A senior prosecutor said it was possible the officer was hit by a pepper gas launcher, as students maintained. But he added: “His death was still caused by the students.” Earlier, a left-wing campus body that orchestrated the violence issued a statement saying the 21-year-old officer was one of four run over by an armored tear-gas launcher in fierce clashes outside a Seoul university. The death raised tensions in a five-day confrontation between authorities and radical students demanding the resignation of President Kim Young Sam. The president has demanded a thorough investigation into the death and “severe punishment” for those responsible, state radio reported.