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Swiss, Chinese drowned in Bali

| Source: JP

Swiss, Chinese drowned in Bali

DENPASAR, Bali: A tourist from Switzerland and another from
Taiwan drowned in separate incidents while on holiday in Bali,
the Antara news agency reported.

According to the morgue at the General Hospital in Denpasar,
the capital of the island of Bali, the Swiss national was
identified as 50-year old Heinz Ley while the Taiwanese tourist
was identified as 40-year old Chen Shin Chuan.

Ley was reported to have been drowned while swimming at Kuta
beach, which faces the Indian Ocean, on Monday.

Chen, meanwhile, was found dead in the swimming pool of the
hotel he was staying in near Kuta.

Both bodies were still at the hospital's morgue yesterday.

Relatives of Ley requested that his body be cremated in Nusa
Dua on Friday. The hospital is still waiting for word from Chem's
relatives. (emb)

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