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Objective: To determine the modalities and manners of unnatural deaths among all cases brought to the district headquarter hospital Lakki Marwat for autopsy. Study Design: Observational / descriptive study Place and Duration of Study: This study was conducted at the District Headquarter Hospital, Lakki Marwat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa from January 2013 t...
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... Death due to firearms is reported as the leading cause of mortality based on autopsy data from Karachi, 12,13 Faisalabad, 14,15 and Lakki Marwat. 16 The salient findings of the present study are: 1) Among different ages and both sexes, younger males are the most common victim of firearm fatalities 2) Most of the referrals for medico-legal autopsies were from Lakki Marwat and Ghazni Khel regions, which are nearer to the autopsy site 3) Majority of the cases had two or multiple shots injuries rather than single shots, 4) Single body regions were more affected than two or multiple regions, of which the chest was most commonly targeted, and 5) 97% of the cases were homicides. ...
