It was only discovered later that he was already dead before the blaze had been lit.
The inquest heard there were no witnesses and passers-by stopped to help and give first aid but realised he was already dead.
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If he hadn't already -- I understand right now that he was probably already dead before yesterday.
He was already in a dead heat with Weldon, according to an independent poll.
The French Chief of Defence Staff, Adm Edouard Guillaud, told French radio that he believed Mr Allex was already dead and accused al-Shabab of "media manipulation".
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Ingrid Loyau-Kennett got off a bus and tried to reason with the two attackers after she tried to help the man lying on the street but found he had no pulse and was already dead.
Baby Peter's father was "frantic with worry" and when he arrived at the hospital he was told his son had already been declared dead.
Waseem Khawaja, a spokesman for the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences Hospital in Islamabad, told reporters that Mr. Zulfikar was already dead when he arrived at the hospital.
Already dead, he was in no position to defend himself.
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The next day the remark was all over the newspapers, confirmation that the 75-year-old former premier was at least alive, thus dampening the speculation, growing since he disappeared from public view in early April, that he was near death, if not already dead.
As a spy for the French Resistance, he survived the Nazi death camp at Buchenwald by assuming the identity of a French prisoner who was already dead.
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