Some 100 recent Jewish emigres from Soviet Georgia assaulted yesterday a doctor and a nurse at an Ashkelon hospital to prevent the performance of a post mortem on a 35-year-old Georgian Jew who was dead on arrival at the hospital. Police intervened to disperse the mob. The hospital later released the body to the family for burial without performing an autopsy to ascertain the cause of death. The man had been sick previously but the immediate cause of death could not be determined by the doctor who attended him.
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