sukumaran ’s sister brintha collapsed in the melee and had to be cilicap , indonesia ( ap ) — ambulances carrying coffins arrived tuesday at a prison island and relatives paid final visits to their condemned loved ones in a sign that indonesia will imminently execute eight foreigners and one indonesian man , despite an international outcry and pleas for mercy .
sukumaran and seven others are expected to be executed by firing squad as early as tuesday night local time .
andrew chan and myuran sukumaran are among a group of convicted drug smugglers facing execution , which also includes four nigerians , a brazilian , an indonesian and a filipino woman .
celia veloso , center , mother of mary jane veloso , a filipino woman on death row in indonesia , tuesday as they arrived for what is expected to be their last visit to see their loved ones .
no official time has been set for when the group will face the firing squad on an island prison off the coast of java , but a 72 - hour notice period expires at midnight on tuesday morning used dogs to clear a path through surging media at the port of cilacap as chan and sukumaran ’s visibly distressed relatives arrived .
relatives of australians andrew chan and myuran sukumaran were visibly distressed .
a french national still has his appeal under review .
media caption myuran sukumaran 's mother : " call off the execution , please do n't kill my son " a group of prisoners due to be executed for drugs offences in indonesia have spent what are believed to be their final moments with their families .
indonesia has some of the world 's toughest drug laws , but jakarta has justified this due to the country 's own drugs problem - 33 indonesians die every day as a result of drugs , according to indonesia 's national narcotics agency .