Police action 'led to immigrant's death'

An African immigrant who died in Austria after police pinned him to the ground died of asphyxiation caused by measures taken to restrain him and not of a weak heart, a court physician said Wednesday.

Cheibani Wague, 33, an immigrant from Mauritania, died in July 003. Initially, authorities said Wague died of a weak heart. But court physician Kurt Hudabiunigg said today that he died of “asphyxiation” caused by measures taken to restrain him.