Journal of Punjab Academy of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology

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  • Year: 2007
  • Volume: 7
  • Issue: 1

Railway Accident – Complete Decapitation

  • Author:
  • Prateek Rastogi1
  • Total Page Count: 3
  • Published Online: Jun 1, 2007
  • DOI:
  • Page Number: 38 to 40

1MD, PGDMLE, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Forensic Medicine, Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, Karnataka

Abstract

Decapitation or complete severance of head from the body is imminently fatal condition without any exception. A case of decapitation in a railway accident is presented. It stresses on the fact that there is an increasing number of such cases and there is always a question whether the death was a homicide or suicide or an accident.

Keywords

Railway accident, Decapitation, Spinal cord transaction