Tue, 17 Mar 1998

Two more nameless bodies found

JAKARTA (JP): Two more unidentified corpses were brought to Cipto Mangunkusumo General Hospital in Central Jakarta over the weekend, increasing the number of unknown bodies taken to the morgue to 77 in the last two months.

The first body was a man in his 60s, while the second was a woman of about 30 years old.

The woman was reportedly found dead near the Bank International Indonesia building at the Roxy Mas Shopping center in West Jakarta on Sunday evening. The man's body was discovered in the Senen area of Central Jakarta on Saturday.

Postmortem examinations indicated that both people had died of illnesses, Ecip, a worker in the morgue said. (09)