Ministry follows up on death of Jordanian child in Turkey

AMMAN — The Foreign Ministry is following up on the death of a five-year-old boy whilst on a trip with his parents to the Turkish city of Trabzon, head of the Foreign Ministry’s Operations Centre Sufian Qudah said on Thursday.

The ministry’s operations centre and the Kingdom’s embassy in Ankara are following up with Turkish authorities on the circumstances surrounding the death, Qudah said, adding that preliminary reports indicate the boy died of natural causes, according to a Foreign Ministry statement. 

The ministry has begun measures to transport the body of the deceased back to Jordan upon his family’s request, Qudah said. He expressed his deepest sympathies and condolences to the boy’s family.