Malaysian 'died of illness'

Malaysian 'died of illness'

TANGERANG (JP): Police probing the death of a retired
Malaysian Army officer at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport
concluded that the Bouraq Airline's passenger who had just
disembarked from a domestic flight had died from an illness,
rather than an accident, an officer said.

An earlier report said Abdul Rochman, 58, had fallen to his
death from the mobile passenger staircase as he disembarked at
2:30 p.m. on Tuesday.

"Preliminary investigations, however, showed that Rochman died
of an illness," Tangerang Police Precinct chief Sr. Insp.
Augustinus Pangiruhuan said on Thursday.

The officer gave no information about the illness.

"He was not tripped or pushed. He just fainted. Other
passengers tried to help him but his pulse was already weak.
Rochman was rushed to the airport's clinic, but shortly after he
was pronounced dead," Augustinus said.

The postmortem results showed he had died of natural causes.

"There are no signs of bruises or blood stains. We have
notified the family through the Malaysian embassy," he added.
(41/edt)