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(1) mere physical strength (feeling, crashing, cracking of the throat, strangulation), (2) tools of domestic, daily or commercial use (knife, hammer, hatchet, blow and impact weapons), (3) hurled objects (arrow, stone, explosives), (4) firearms, (5) destructive agents with elementary force (fire, electricity, heat strike), (6) poisons (gaseous, liquid, solid), (7) means of interruption of the breathing process or of suffocation (suffocating, asphyxiating, spilling, drowning, hanging). (b) representations of non-natural death. A non-natural death can be represented as death (1) as a result of foreign fault, namely (a) intentional act with fatal outcome (murder, manslaughter, infanticide, bodily injury), (b) negligent act with deadly outcome (traffic and industrial accidents) ; (2) without external fault, i.e. as (a), suicide, (b), traffic and industrial accident, (c) sports accidents, (d) the result of an unfortunate accident without own fault or out of own fault. (c) Unknown dead. Unknown dead are those deceased persons whose personality is not established — for the rest see instructions: "Missed and unknown dead", St 17-101-20-. d) Anatomical autopsy. This does not affect the provisions on "anatomic autopsy" to be carried out in public hospitals — see Section III 6 — II. Jurisdiction in the handling of cases of death investigation. 1. Local jurisdiction. For the purposes of these Directives, the competent authority for the processing of cases of death investigation is the criminal police department in whose area the non-natural death has occurred or the unknown body has been found; however, each executive body, including without prejudice to local jurisdiction, is obliged to immediately carry out the first attack (secure of the crime scene, traces, corpse, etc.). Conflicts of jurisdiction must not, under any circumstances, delay the necessary measures (for example, "deceased on transport than the event causing death"). Rules of jurisdiction between the German Criminal Police and the Protectorate Criminal Police (a) in case of natural death. In case of the natural death of a person of any nationality who died in the Protectorates, there is no criminal police jurisdiction at all. (b) in the case of non-natural death (death investigation cases). (1) The jurisdiction of the German criminal police is given, (a) if death was caused intentionally or negligently by German perpetrators, i.e. even in the case of suicides of Germans -- in the latter case, however, the investigations can be carried out by organs of the protectorate criminal police, if, after notification of the case (far orally), the competent German criminal department does not consider it necessary to deal with the case on its own initiative — (b) if the death was brought about by perpetators who do not have the German nationality, whether it is protectorate or other 2