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NASSAU, Bahamas — An autopsy is planned in spite of John Travolta’s teenage son, who died after apparently hitting his head on the bathtub while the family was vacationing at their home in the Bahamas, authorities said.

Jett Travolta, 16, had last been seen entering the bathroom on Thursday and had a history of seizures, Police Superintendent Basil Rahming reported in a statement.

A house caretaker set up the teenager unconscious in a bathroom late Friday morning. He was taken by the agency of ambulance to a Freeport hospital, to which place he was pronounced departed, the statement said.

Jett apparently hit his head on the bathtub, said a police officer who declined to be named since she was not authorized to speak adhering the difficulty.

Family attorney Michael Ossi said in a relation that Jett died suddenly on Friday. Publicists Samantha Mast and Paul Bloch released the statement but could not be reached for additional comment.

Obie Wilchcombe, a parliament member and former tourism minister in the Bahamas, said that an personal examination is planned in favor of Monday, and “we anticipate a quick resoluteness.”

“John spoke with the envoy of health and the doctors and police are at the hospital. They’re very, very hasty to resolve things,” he said.

Wilchcombe declared Travolta “spent a tremendous amount of time with Jett.”

“He always brought him along. There was a close, affectionate relationship and lots of love,” Wilchcombe told “Larry King Live” in a live telephone interview. “People in the old Bahama community today are in shock.”

Travolta, 54, and his wife, actress Kelly Preston, 46, also have an 8-year-old daughter, Ella Bleu. The lineage had arrived in the Bahamas in succession a private plane Tuesday and was vacationing at their home in the Old Bahama Bay resort community.

Preston and Travolta have said that Jett became very sick when he was 2 years old and was diagnosed through Kawasaki disease, an sickness that leads to inflammation of the blood vessels in young children.

She blamed household cleaners and fertilizers, and related that a detoxification program based on teachings from the Church of Scientology helped improve his hale condition, according to People magazine. Both Travolta and Preston are practicing Scientologists.