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Afghan national found dead in Sidoarjo detention center
The Taman sub-precinct police office said an Afghan national was found dead by hanging from an apparent suicide in a cell at the Puspa Agro Immigration Detention Center in Sidoarjo, East Java on Tuesday morning
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he Taman sub-precinct police office said an Afghan national was found dead by hanging from an apparent suicide in a cell at the Puspa Agro Immigration Detention Center in Sidoarjo, East Java on Tuesday morning.
'We are still unable to determine the motive for the apparent suicide death of the Afghan citizen whose body has been taken to the Porong Bhayangkara Hospital for an autopsy,' the police's chief Comr. Kusminto said as quoted by Antara news agency on Tuesday.
He said the dead body was found by the victim's cellmate and that no visible signs of torture on the body indicated that the victim committed suicide.
Meanwhile, the head of the Waru Immigration Office in Sidoarjo, Enang Syamsi, said that his team would coordinate with the International Organization for Migration (IOM), which represented the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in the handling of Afghan refugees in Indonesia.
'We will coordinate with the IOM and contact the victim's family in Afghanistan, while we are waiting for further developments in the case,' Enang said. (dyl/ebf)(++++)
