Manu’atele crew member dies in sleep

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A crew member of the MV Manu’atele died while the vessel was enroute to Manu’a Wednesday night.

According to Deputy Commissioner of Public Safety Foifua Foifua Jr, he apparently died in his sleep.

When he didn’t show up for his watch colleagues checked on him and discovered that he had died.

Foifua said preliminary information suggests that the man had a health condition.

The vessel returned to Tutuila to drop off the crew member’s body that night and then continued its journey to Manu’a.