Lankan students’ deaths: Bodies to be repatriated at state expense

13 January 2020 02:40 pm

The Foreign Ministry is coordinating to repatriate the remains of the three Sri Lankan students who died in Azerbaijan on 9 January, to Sri Lanka at state expense upon the completion of necessary documentation, the Ministry of Foreign Relations said.

It said in a stamen that the postmortem with regard to the deaths of the three Sri Lankan students who were studying at Western Caspian University in Baku Azerbaijan has been completed at the Republic Hospital in Baku, Azerbaijan.