By Lagi Keresoma<\/p>\n
APIA, SAMOA \u2013 16 DECEMBER 2022:<\/strong>\u00a0A pathologist from Fiji has started post mortems on nine bodies including that of a 49 year old mother suspected to have been assaulted.<\/p>\n The case was reported by the deceased\u2019s family last week and police are awaiting a decision from the Coroner if a post mortem should be conducted on the victim of a traffic incident at Salelologa last weekend.<\/p>\n The Deputy Commissioner of Police, Papali\u2019i Monalisa Keti said the deceased\u2019s body was found early Saturday morning at Salelologa and was reported to the Tuasivi police.<\/p>\n According to police records, the deceased was sleeping by the roadside when a car driven by a woman at around 3.00am Saturday morning ran him over.<\/p>\n The woman has been charged and police are awaiting the Coroners decision.<\/p>\n Out of the nine bodies, 7 have been in the morgue since August awaiting post mortems.<\/p>\n Papali\u2019i said it is very expensive to bring a pathologist over for these special operations and the last time a pathologist was in Samoa was July 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Lagi Keresoma APIA, SAMOA \u2013 16 DECEMBER 2022:\u00a0A pathologist from Fiji has started post mortems on nine bodies including that of a 49 year old mother suspected to have been assaulted. The case was reported by the deceased\u2019s family last week and police are awaiting a decision from the Coroner if a post mortem […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[177,188],"tags":[1953,59,1951,1952],"class_list":["post-15325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-law-order","tag-awaiting-the-coroners-decision","tag-featured","tag-fijian-pathologist-conducts-post-mortems-on-nine-bodies","tag-held-since-august"],"yoast_head":"\n