55-year-old man dies in police custody
A 55-year-old man detained at a police remand facility died Tuesday morning while en route to a hospital in the capital Malé.
30 Aug 2016, 9:00 AM
A 55-year-old man detained at a police remand facility died Tuesday morning while en route to a hospital in the capital Malé.
Moosa Naeem’s health began to deteriorate at 3:35am at a centre on Dhoonidhoo, an island ten minutes from Malé, Ismail Ali, the police spokesman said.
“We monitored his condition for some time and then brought him to the Indira Gandhi Memorial Hospital around 6am, where doctors pronounced him dead,” Ismail said. “I believe he may have passed away en-route to Malé.”
Naeem’s body is being flown abroad for a post-mortem, the police said.
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