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GuardianIrishman killed in Bolivia was linked to bomb attack, inquest told.
Peter Walker guardian.co.uk,
Wednesday 14 October 2009 02.00 BST
An Irish man shot dead in Bolivia after allegedly becoming mixed up in a rightwing plot to assassinate the country's president was killed by a single bullet wound to the heart, possibly inflicted as he sat up in bed, an inquest heard yesterday.
Security worker Michael Dwyer, 24, was killed when police raided a hotel in the capital, Santa Cruz, on 16 April. A local autopsy said he had been killed by six bullets. But Paul Malone, solicitor for the Dwyer family, told Dublin County coroner's court that the Irish state pathologist had found just one bullet wound, which was apparently fired from above.
Dwyer was killed in the raid together with Eduardo Rozsa Flores, a Bolivian of Hungarian descent who held Croatian citizenship, and Arpad Magyarosi, a Romanian with Hungarian citizenship. The other two had suspected links to a far-right group blamed for attacks on indigenous Bolivians, and authorities said they had plotted to kill Evo Morales, Bolivia's president, who is from an indigenous background.
The Irish government has requested an international investigation into Dwyer's death following reports that the three men were asleep when the shooting started. Bolivian police say they died during a 30-minute gun battle. At the inquest, Malone also questioned why authorities waited three weeks to reveal that two guns were found in Dwyer's room, and why reporters and members of the public were allowed into the room after the deaths.
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