Drowned Korean flown home

Drowned Korean flown home

INDONESIA: The body of Yun Vae Young, 27, a citizen of South Korea who drowned in the waters off Depapre district in Jayapura, was flown home on Friday, Antara reported on Saturday.

Police here confirmed that the body had been flown by Merpati aircraft to Jakarta, before it was flown to Seoul.

No autopsy was done on the body as friends of the deceased, all from South Korea, submitted a signed objection to a planned autopsy, a police spokesman said.

Yun and his friends were swimming at Amai Beach, some 80 kilometers north of Jayapura.

Police assistant commissioner RD Woru said the police had since closed the beach indefinitely. There have been frequent casualties there, particularly on holidays when the beach is packed, the agency reported. -- Antara