Body, clothes ‘a mystery’

Press, 4 December 1985, Page 9

Body, clothes ‘a mystery’

NZPA-AP Freiburg, West Germany The body of a man found in a container last month by chemical factory workers had still not been identified yesterday, said authorities. The workers found the body along with spare clothes and a transistor radio in a cellulose container imported from the United States. “We suspect that he may

have been a stowaway, someone who wanted to come over (to Europe) without paying his way,” said the Freiburg police inspector, Uwe Schundelmeier. He said that no signs of violence were found on the body. “The man was about 30 years old with dark wavy hair and apparently of Indian or Pakistani na-

tionality,” said Mr Schundelmeier. “No personal identification documents were found on the body, which was totally dehydrated and very thin, 36kg, so we suspect he died of thirst, hunger and-or asphyxiation.” He said it had not been determined when the man died or when and how he got into the container.