Firearm fatalities in Dammam, Saudi Arabia

Medicine, Science and the Law

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 237-240

  Al Madni, Osama ^a   Kharosha, Magdy Abdel Azim ^a   Shotar, Ali M ^b  

^a Forensic Medicine Department   (Saudi Arabia)

^b JORDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Jordan)

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EID: 51149105469     PISSN: 00258024     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/rsmmsl.48.3.237     Document Type: Article

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