en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Saunders_(British_Army_officer)
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Saunders died in the hospital two hours later.
Contemporaneous reports said Saunders died about three-and-a-half hours after the shooting, not two hours later.
Full reasoning
Multiple contemporaneous news reports contradict this timing.
- An Associated Press report published the same day said Saunders "died about 3 1/2 hours after the shooting, hospital officials said."
- The Guardian likewise reported that he "died about three-and-a-half hours after the shooting."
So the article's statement that he died two hours later is inconsistent with the available contemporaneous reporting. Since the article itself gives the shooting time as 07:48, a death roughly 3.5 hours later would place it around 11:15, not around 09:48.
2 sources
- British aide in Greece shot, killed - Deseret News (AP)
Police said motorcycle-riding gunmen shot Brig. Stephen Saunders ... He died about 3 1/2 hours after the shooting, hospital officials said.
- British defence attache shot dead in Athens | The Guardian
The victim, defence attache Brigadier Stephen Saunders, was rushed to a local hospital with head and chest wounds, but died about three-and-a-half hours after the shooting.