JEDDAH: The body of a Saudi student who died at an Ohio lake last week arrived in Jeddah, Monday. The casket carrying Mishari Al-Suraihi's body was received at King Abdul Aziz International Airport at 3:30 PM on a Saudia flight coming from New York. The body was received by family and friends of the 23-year-old mechanical engineering student at University of Akron. No Saudi official was present at the airport, which dismayed the family and friends, sources said. Al-Suraihi's friends said he died trying to rescue a US man but who died in the incident. Al-Suraihi's death followed a weather-triggered boating mishap at West Branch State Park in Portage County, Ohio, a media report said. He died trying to rescue a 46-year-old Uniontown man after their boat capsized on April 17, his friends said. George Raresheid, 46, was found unconscious on a log and died at Robinson Memorial Hospital. Al-Suraihi went missing for hours. His body was found the following day. One man made it to shore and ran a half-mile to their truck, where he flagged down a passerby who called 9-1-1 and gathered other people to search for the men in the water, according to the report. The three men weren't wearing life jackets and they struggled to swim in the choppy 47-degree water. Al-Suraihi's body was taken right from the airport for burial rituals in Jeddah.
