UAE police head to US after Emirati shot dead
UAE police head to US after Emirati shot dead
Abu Dhabi investigators will 'participate in the investigation' into the death of a 26-year-old shot and killed by US police after allegedly running away from a car crash site.
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Alameri was a student living in Cleveland, Ohio [Getty]
Abu Dhabi investigators are heading to the US after police in Ohio shot dead an Emirati, a state-owned newspaper in the United Arab Emirates has reported.
The Arabic-language Al Bayan newspaper also reported Thursday that the body of 26-year-old Saif Nasser Mubarak Alameri is on its way back to the United Arab Emirates for burial on Friday.
Authorities say Alameri, a student at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, was shot once in the head on Sunday by police after fleeing a car crash on the Ohio Turnpike and fighting with an officer.
| Read more here: Emirati student shot dead by US police |
The newspaper says Abu Dhabi investigators will "participate in the investigation" of Alameri's shooting death. It did not elaborate.
The UAE, a federation of seven sheikhdoms on the Arabian Peninsula, is a stalwart US ally in the Mideast.
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