Published : 25-05-2019
The body of a dead man was spotted on a wheelchair in Lebanon’s Jabal province while covered with a winter blanket. No identity documents were found with the man.
The Lebanese investigation chief said on Thursday, May 23, the police received a phone call telling them that a man’s body started to disintegrate after worms have made their homes inside his cadaver.
Following forensic and criminal investigation, authorities declared that the death was natural and took the man’s fingerprints for administrative procedures. It turned out sometime later that the man is the Palestinian refugee from Syria Mustafa Mohamed AlSamak, the son of a so-called Mrs. Fathiya born in 1960.
The investigation chief said the body has been held in a morgue fridge at Baabda Governmental Hospital pending the arrival of concerned Palestinian parties to receive the cadaver and finalize pre-funeral protocols.
Palestinian activists in Lebanon have called on the Palestine Embassy and institutions to urgently show up at the hospital and carry out burial procedures so as to lay the man to rest.
Nearly 28,000 Palestinian refugees from Syria seeking shelter in Lebanon have been subjected to dire socio-economic conditions and a precarious legal status as the Lebanese authorities continue to rebuff their appeals for legal visas and access to the local labor market.
The body of a dead man was spotted on a wheelchair in Lebanon’s Jabal province while covered with a winter blanket. No identity documents were found with the man.
The Lebanese investigation chief said on Thursday, May 23, the police received a phone call telling them that a man’s body started to disintegrate after worms have made their homes inside his cadaver.
Following forensic and criminal investigation, authorities declared that the death was natural and took the man’s fingerprints for administrative procedures. It turned out sometime later that the man is the Palestinian refugee from Syria Mustafa Mohamed AlSamak, the son of a so-called Mrs. Fathiya born in 1960.
The investigation chief said the body has been held in a morgue fridge at Baabda Governmental Hospital pending the arrival of concerned Palestinian parties to receive the cadaver and finalize pre-funeral protocols.
Palestinian activists in Lebanon have called on the Palestine Embassy and institutions to urgently show up at the hospital and carry out burial procedures so as to lay the man to rest.
Nearly 28,000 Palestinian refugees from Syria seeking shelter in Lebanon have been subjected to dire socio-economic conditions and a precarious legal status as the Lebanese authorities continue to rebuff their appeals for legal visas and access to the local labor market.
