PATTANI — The body of an insurgency suspect died in military custody has been buried but the reasons behind the death of Abdullahyib Dorloh remain unanswered.
Family members and friends buried the 42-year-old man on Friday evening after taking the body from Songkhlanagarind Hospital where an autopsy had been conducted.
The doctors did not reveal the results but a cousin of Abdullahyib said on Saturday that the family was told that an initial post-mortem and x-ray had found no broken bones. However, blood stains and a bruise were detected on his right hand and doctors took tissue samples from the hand for further examination, with the result expected in a few days, the same cousin added.
Abdullahyib died at Ingkhayutthaborihan camp in Nong Chik district in this southern province on Friday while being questioned by security authorities, according to the southern forward command of the Internal Security Operations Command (Isoc).
He had been arrested in the same district on Nov 11 for alleged involvement in insurgency, according to Isoc. It said in a statement released after his death that Abdullahyib had admitted to interrogators that he was a unit leader in the area.
But his wife Kurosamoh Tuwabuesae, 34, said on Saturday that her husband was a farmer. She said he had been arrested just one day earlier when soldiers surrounded their house.
The sudden death came as a shock, she said, as her husband showed no signs of poor health when she last saw him at the detention area inside the camp on Thursday. He did not say much during their conversation but said he was somewhat tired, Kurosamoh recalled.
The widow said she was still struggling with the sorrow caused by her husband's death, and that death during interrogation was unacceptable to her.
Abdullahyib was healthy and did not have any congenital diseases, she said, adding that she wanted state authorities or any relevant agencies to look into the case to find out why her husband died.
Isoc on Friday asked Abdullahyib's family members and others to be patient and wait for the autopsy results, which it said would be announced to the public.