Sala died from head injuries

– Argentine footballer Emiliano Sala died of “head and trunk injuries”, an inquest in England heard yesterday as it began to examine his death in a plane crash in the sea.

Sala, 28, had signed for English Premier League side Cardiff City and was flying to his new team from his old club Nantes in France when his plane went missing over the Channel on January 21.

The striker’s body was recovered last week but pilot David Ibbotson is still missing. –

London