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US police shot Jayland Walker more than 40 times

Jayland Walker's killing during a traffic stop in Akron, Ohio, late last month has spurred mass protests and calls for accountability and racial justice in the United States [File: Aaron Josefczyk/Reuters]

A Black man killed by police in a hail of bullets in the United States late last month was shot 46 times, the local medical examiner has said after a preliminary autopsy, as calls for accountability for the killing of Jayland Walker mount.

In a news conference on Friday morning, Dr Lisa Kohler, the Summit County, Ohio medical examiner, said Walker died as a result of blood loss caused by his internal injuries. She counted 41 entry wounds and five wounds from bullets that grazed him.

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