Sat, 14 Aug 2004

Man found dead in Bandung rehab clinic

BANDUNG: Ishak Purwanto, 27, who was undergoing therapy at the Budi Luhur rehab center in the West Java capital of Bandung, ended his own life on Friday.

Ishak's body was found hanging in the clinic's locked bathroom at around 10:30 a.m. and was taken to Hasan Sadikin hospital for an autopsy, said clinic official Musa Maxitalan.

He said that since being admitted to the clinic a month ago for treatment, the victim, who is from the West Java city of Cirebon, had seemed distressed. --JP