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BOSTON (AP) - Gov. Deval Patrick on Thursday ordered the state's chief medical examiner removed after the official's agency reported that it lost a body autopsied at its facility last month.
State authorities will search for the body, said Kurt N. Schwartz, the state's acting public safety secretary, in a statement. The body was taken to the medical examiner's office April 23 and autopsied the next day.
Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Mark Flomenbaum was placed on a paid leave of absence pending the investigation, said Charles McDonald, a spokesman for the Executive Office of Public Safety.
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