Rugby player Thajudeen’s body reburied

The exhumed body of Rugby player Wasim Thajudeen was reburied today at the Jummah Mosque Cemetery, Dehiwala 38 days after it was exhumed.

Ruggerite Thajudeen’s body was exhumed on August 10 as per the order of Colombo Additional Magistrate Nishantha Peiris. The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) earlier informed the Magistrate that Thajudeen’s death was not accidental but a murder.

Ex –JMO Prof. Ananda Samarasekera in his final autopsy report filed in court asserts that the death of Mr. Thajudeen was due to unconsciousness, disability of limbs and inhalation of carbon monoxide gas emitted from the fire.

The detailed report stated that at the time of the onset of the fire he was alive but unconscious and totally disabled for he was breathing till his death. The report also stated that there was high level of ethanol in the blood of Thajudeen and he would have consumed it during the interval of 2 hours prior to the incident.