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Wed 10 Oct 2009Irishman died from single bullet wound in Bolivia, inquest told
IRISHMAN MICHAEL Dwyer, shot dead by anti-terrorist police in Bolivia last April, was shot through the heart with a bullet designed to cause massive internal injuries, and he was most likely in bed at the time, an inquest has heard.
Some 51 shots were fired during what Bolivia’s ambassador to Britain and Ireland, Beatrice Suveron, yesterday described as a “shoot-out” in a hotel in Santa Cruz. She alleged two guns had been found in Mr Dwyer’s room.
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