Sailor's body to be handed over to family

by Ananda AGALAKADA

An Indonesian sailor attached to a Taiwan merchant vessel had reportedly died on board on July from cardiac failure while the ship was reaching the Colombo harbour.

After the ship arrived at the Colombo harbour on July 31, an officer of the ship informed harbour authorities about the incident.

Later, a post-mortem had revealed that he had died of a heart attack.

The harbour police said arrangements were made to hand over the body to his family in Indonesia.