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Singapore
Mar 25, 2010
2 die in smuggling attempt
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<!-- end left side bar --> <!-- story content : start --> THE police are investigating the deaths of two men during an attempt to smuggle contraband cigarettes. A spokesman from the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) said a towing barge, the Lingco 203, was prepared to depart Singapore on Sunday when it was discovered that a crew member was missing. Searching the barge, remaining crew members discovered his body, together with another identified body in the vessel's engine room. The dead crew member was identified as a 36-year-old Indonesian national but the identify of the other body is unknown. Contraband cigarettes, totalling 1,300 cartons and with a value of about $128,000, were recovered from the same engine room. It is believed that the pair could have suffocated from carbon monoxide and sulphuric acid fumes commonly produced in similar engine rooms.
Mar 25, 2010
2 die in smuggling attempt
<!-- by line --> By Linus Lin
<!-- end by line -->
<!-- end left side bar --> <!-- story content : start --> THE police are investigating the deaths of two men during an attempt to smuggle contraband cigarettes. A spokesman from the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) said a towing barge, the Lingco 203, was prepared to depart Singapore on Sunday when it was discovered that a crew member was missing. Searching the barge, remaining crew members discovered his body, together with another identified body in the vessel's engine room. The dead crew member was identified as a 36-year-old Indonesian national but the identify of the other body is unknown. Contraband cigarettes, totalling 1,300 cartons and with a value of about $128,000, were recovered from the same engine room. It is believed that the pair could have suffocated from carbon monoxide and sulphuric acid fumes commonly produced in similar engine rooms.
