Tamils die in Sydney gassing
NZPA Sydney Police are waiting to interview the sole survivor of a gassing incident that left three Sri Lankan Tamils dead in a flat in the inner Sydney suburb of Chippendale at the week-end.
A spokesman for Prince Henry Hospital said Mohandran Sapla, aged 39, was expected to be moved out of the intensive care ward yesterday after treatment in a highpressure oxygen chamber. Killed in the Abercrombie Street flat were Navaratnasinam Monlkam, aged 40, Slvaloganathan Sinnathurai, aged 29, and a 30-year-old man whose relatives in Sri Lanka were yet to be informed of the tragedy, police said.
All were Tamils from the troubled Jaffna region of Sri Lanka who had applied for political refugee status about a year ago.
The men had been dead for at least 12 hours when they were discovered, fully clothed, on Sunday afternoon by a brother of one of the dead men. Police found three of the stove’s gas outlets on, but M tUL |
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