France, Feb. 18 -- The death of medical student Abdoulaye Ba in unclear circumstances on February 9 as police intervened on his university campus in the capital Dakar following several days of student demonstrations has shaken the west African nation.

Autopsy report

His autopsy report lists several injuries to the chest and skull "complicated by massive internal bleeding", which the coroner said ruled out "an isolated natural cause".

The students' collective at the Cheikh Anta Diop University (UCAD) insisted last week that Ba was "brutally tortured to death by the police".

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But the Dakar court's prosecutor on Tuesday rejected that account, insisting that Ba "...