...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...border while she and several others attempted to cross a river separating the two countries, Greek police said Sunday.
It wasn't immediately clear who fired the shot that killed the woman on Saturday night. An autopsy showed that the victim was shot in the back with a small-caliber weapon.
Greek police were patrolling the area where the Evros River, which is called Meric in
Police said 11 people embarked on an inflatable dinghy, and officers directed flashlights at the boat and started shouting ``Police. Go back.'' In response, said the police officer, a ``barrage'' of shots erupted from the
The dinghy came close to the Greek shore and five people disembarked _ four made it to the shore while a fifth person was seen floating in the water. Police reached the body with some difficulty, according to the statement, and when they pulled it to the shore they determined that it belonged to a woman and that she was dead.
Police questioned the four survivors _ three Pak males, one of them a minor (17 years old), and a woman from Eritrea
...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age...
. It wasn't known what happened to the other six people who tried to cross, but authorities don't believe they entered Greece.
Coroner Pavlos Pavlidis, who performed the autopsy on the woman in the northeastern city of Alexandroupolis, told the AP that the victim was between the ages of 20 and 25 and that she was most likely from one of the Horn of Africa countries.
She had a wound ``in the upper right (back) area. She was shot from close distance and died almost instantly from post-hemorrhagic (blood loss) shock,`` Pavlidis said.