Body of Japanese tourist flown home

DENPASAR, Bali: The body of Japanese tourist Teruo Sueda, 58, was flown back to Japan on Tuesday after being kept for three days at Denpasar General Hospital's morgue, Antara reported on Tuesday.

Sueda, an executive of a Japanese company, arrived in Bali on Thursday on vacation but died two days later due to dehydration.

He had been treated at a health clinic owned by the Nusa Dua Tourism Development Agency (PT BTDC), but doctors failed to save his life.

His body was then kept in the morgue, pending an official request from his family to send Sueda's body back to Japan.

According to the head of Antarbangsa service bureau Gus Sumatra in Denpasar on Tuesday, Sueda's body was to be flown from Ngurah Rai Airport in Denpasar to Nagoya on a Singapore Airlines' airplane. (hdn)