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No help from SLFEB for Saudi victim, says family
By Shelton Hettiarachi, Nuwara Eliya correspondent
The body of a Sri Lankan youth, M. Sivasubramaniam (30) killed in the Al Qaeda terrorist hold-up in a luxury housing complex in Saudi Arabia last Saturday was brought to his Nuwara Eliya residence on Friday, but the family complained that scant attention was given by the Foreign Employment Bureau officials.

The remains of Sivasubramaniam, one of the two Lankans killed in the twenty-five-hour hold-up, was handed over to his relatives by the Foreign Employment Bureau at the Katunayake Airport.

The brother of the deceased, M. Mohanraj found fault with the Foreign Employment Bureau for not assisting in the task of transporting the body to the remote and hilly area in Nuwara Eliya where the home of Sivasubramanium, is located.

He further stated that Sivasubramaniam who had been working as a housekeeper for the past three years in the housing complex which was attacked, had not been insured and therefore his family was not entitled to any compensation.
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