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Suicidal death caused by electrocution: Two case reports

Nikolić Slobodan (Institut za sudsku medicinu, Medicinski fakultet, Beograd)
Mihailović Zoran (Institut za sudsku medicinu, Medicinski fakultet, Beograd)
Micić Jelena (Institut za sudsku medicinu, Medicinski fakultet, Beograd)

Suicides by electrocution are extremly rare in our country. In these cases, specific or characteristic external lesions caused through contact with conductors at the sites of entry and exit of the current, as well as general autopsy findings, and excluding the other possible causes of death, are important to elucidate them. Dilema if death was sucidal, homicidal or accidental in manner, could be solved through good police investigation, and properly explained circumstantial events. Herein, we reported two cases of suicidal deaths, caused by electrocution. In the first case, it was a male, age of 32, who wraped the electrical cord around his rists, and kiled himself by plugging it in. In second case, it was a female, age of 46, abused by her husband, who commited suicide by putting the switched hear-dryer into the water in bathtube.

Keywords: electrocution, suicide, autopsy