BETHLEHEM (Ma'an News Agency) - A preliminary autopsy report shows that 16-year-old
Muhammad Abu Khdeir was burnt alive by his kidnappers, a senior Palestinian
official said late Friday.
Attorney General Muhammad Abd al-Ghani Uweili told Ma'an Abu Khdeir's autopsy showed soot in the victim's lungs and respiratory tract, indicating he was alive and breathing while he was being burnt.
Abu Khdeir also had a head injury, but died from complications as a result of being burnt, Uweili said.
A final autopsy will be released later, he added.
The autopsy was conducted at Abu Kabir Forensic Institute in Israel in the presence of Palestinian coroner Dr. Sabir al-Aloul, the director of the Institute of Forensic Medicine at al-Quds University.
Palestinians say right-wing Israelis kidnapped and killed Abu Khdeir, whose body was found early Wednesday in a forest near West Jerusalem.
The murder is thought to be a revenge attack in response to the kidnapping and killing of three Israeli teens, who were buried the day before.
Israeli police say the circumstances behind Abu Khdeir's killing remain unclear.
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