Earlier, bus driver Yusuf Hasan al-Ramouni, 32, was found hanged inside his bus at the Har Hotzvim terminal near Jerusalem, and police said in a statement that there was “no suspicion of criminal activity” and his death appeared to be a suicide.
But the medical expert, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told Ma’an that al-Ramouni’s death did not appear to be a suicide.
After an autopsy it was found that the man’s first vertebra was not dislocated, which usually happens in the cases of suicide by hanging, the expert said.
He added that postmortem lividity, or livor mortis, was found on the buttocks of the body and not the lower limbs, which indicates that al-Ramouni was not dangled.
The expert said he assumed al-Ramouni was killed in a planned attack, and that conclusive evidence disproving or confirming his suspicions required lab work, which would take over three months.
Ramouni’s fellow bus driver Muatasem Fakeh said he had seen evidence to the contrary.
“We saw signs of violence on his body,” Fakeh told AFP.
“He was hanged over the steps at the back of the bus in a place where it would be impossible to hang yourself alone,” he added.
The victim’s brother, Osama al-Ramouni said the family did not accept the verdict of suicide, saying his body “had bruises on it,” suggesting he had been “tortured” before his death.
AFP contributed to this report.
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