died last week after smuggling cocaine to Bermuda in his stomach.

An autopsy revealed he had in his stomach 24 packets made out of condoms which contained some 192 grams of cocaine, Jamaica's Daily Gleaner newspaper reported.

It is understood the packets of cocaine burst inside Ovel Washington Porter, and he died of a drug overdose.

Bermuda Police would only confirm that 28-year-old Porter arrived here on a flight from Atlanta on Saturday, December 4 and that he stayed at a private residence in Warwick where he collapsed and died the following day.

Police spokesman P.c. Gary Venning said an autopsy carried out at the hospital last Monday revealed death was not due to natural causes.

Police were preparing a report which would be forwarded to the Coroner.

Porter's body was flown back to Jamaica on Saturday, December 11, P.c. Venning said.

The Daily Gleaner said in a Saturday article that Porter had worked as a seaman aboard the Song of America but lost his job recently.

He left Jamaica on November 23 and after travelling to Miami, Florida and then Atlanta, arrived in Bermuda.

The drugs Porter brought here had an estimated street value of nearly $50,000.

The newspaper further said Porter was one of three Jamaican drug couriers who died in the same week from ingesting cocaine they were attempting to smuggle in packets in their stomachs.

One died after arriving in Jamaica from Colombia, and the other in an Aruban hotel.