Policeman killed by tear gas van

SEOUL- An autopsy on a South Korean riot policeman - killed during campus clashes on Monday cast doubt on reports that he was…

SEOUL- An autopsy on a South Korean riot policeman - killed during campus clashes on Monday cast doubt on reports that he was clubbed to death by students and supported student claims he was killed by a police vehicle.

"It looks like he was hit by a car," an official at the Supreme Public Prosecutor's office said yesterday after studying the Earlier, a left-wing campus body which organised the demonstrations issued a statement saying the 21-year-old officer was one of four run over by an armoured tear gas launcher in fierce clashes outside a Seoul university.