Friday, April 27, 2007

Next Stop: The Pearly Gates!

A dead passenger traveled unnoticed for at least half a day on a commuter train, the Warta Kota newspaper of Indonesia reported Friday. Anxious family members found the body of Edy Haryanto, 55, sitting in a locked lavatory on Thursday afternoon, more than a day after he had boarded with a group of friends in the central Javanese town of Tegal.

His family became worried when Haryanto didn't get out at the station in Jakarta at the end of the 6-hour journey and his cell phone went unanswered. The body traveled repeatedly back and forth between Tegal and Jakarta before a janitor reported that he was unable to clean one lavatory because the door was locked.

The cause of the death was not immediately clear, but Haryanto had recently suffered a stroke. Dina Nurhandayani, the man's 29-year-old daughter, said she planned to file a complaint of negligence with the state-owned train company PT Kereta Api Indonesia.

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