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Sumo wrestler’s death reconfirmed as due to multiple traumatic shocks

Nagoya University has reconfirmed in an autopsy that the death of a 17-year-old sumo wrestler who died last June allegedly due to hazing was caused by shock resulting from multiple trauma, sources close to the matter said Monday.

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One response to “Sumo wrestler’s death reconfirmed as due to multiple traumatic shocks”

  1. jim "TEX" evans, Nov 21 at 2:15 pm :
  2. it is really a sad day in japan, when the have to beat a young man to death with a baseball bat, the should be locked up for life, with no chance of ever getting out of prison.

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