KARACHI: A Philippines national, said to be the chief engineer, was found dead inside a ship coming from Norway on Thursday evening, police and hospital sources said.

Keamari SSP Fida Husain Janwari said that the police were informed that the Filipino, Raul Begaso, 65, was found dead in his cabin on the ship when.

The Docks police shifted the body to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre to ascertain the exact cause of his death. The SSP said that the police were told that he died of natural causes. “We are trying to verify it,” he added.

Additional police surgeon at the JPMC Dr Summaiya Syed said the police informed them that the foreigner had died at around 9:30pm on Wednesday but his body was brought to the hospital on Thursday evening.

Docks police officer, Rana Waseem said that Mr Begaso was found dead in his cabin when the ship, coming from Norway, was in the open sea.

“Apparently, there were no marks of injuries on the chief engineer’s body,” the officer said.

Published in Dawn, December 3rd, 2021