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Prince death: 'No sign' it was suicide, sheriff says | |
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There is "no reason to believe" that Prince's death was suicide, the sheriff of the Minnesota county where the singer had his home has said after a post-mortem. | |
There was no sign of trauma on his body, Carver County Sheriff Jim Olson said. | |
Prince, 57, was found dead in a lift on his Paisley Park estate on Thursday. | |
Tributes have been paid around the world to the enigmatic musician, who sold more than 100m records. | |
His innovative music spanned rock, funk and jazz. He was at his peak in the 1980s with albums like Dirty Mind, 1999 and Sign O' The Times. | |
The sheriff warned that full results from the post-mortem could take several weeks, and the incident was still under investigation. | |
There was no one in the residence at the time except Prince, Mr Olson said, but this was not unusual. | |
He was last seen at about 20:00 on Wednesday night (01:00 GMT on Thursday) and was found unconscious by some of his staff at about 09:30 the next morning. | |
The police have been in touch with Prince's family, the sheriff said. | |
The singer had been rushed to hospital in Illinois last Friday, while flying home from a concert in Georgia, but was treated and released a few hours later. | |
Fans have set up impromptu memorials in his home town Minneapolis and in New York. | |
In London, US President Barack Obama said he and the US ambassador began the day by listening to Prince's hit Purple Rain and Delirious before attending bilateral meetings. | |
A spokeswoman for the Minnesota Medical Examiner's Office said a full set of tests - including blood and tissue samples - would be carried out. |