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Sarabjit Singh loses battle for life, dies in Lahore hospital

Lahore/Islamabad: Sarabjit Singh died of cardiac arrest in a Lahore hospital in the wee hours on Thursday after being comatose for nearly a week following a brutal assault by other inmates of a high-security jail, officials said.

“I received a call from the doctor on duty (at Jinnah Hospital) at 1 am (1:30 IST) informing me that Sarabjit is no more,” Mahmood Shaukat, the head of a medical board that was supervising Sarabjit’s treatmen, said. Another doctor, who was part of the team treating Sarabjit said he died of cardiac arrest, adding that doctors made several unsuccessful attempts to resuscitate him.
Earlier in the day, official sources in Lahore had said Sarabjit had slipped into a ‘non-reversible’ coma and this could lead to ‘brain death’. His measurements on the Glasgow Coma Scale, which indicates the levels of consciousness and damage to a person’s central nervous system, had dropped to a ‘critical level, the sources said.

Sarabjit’s heart was beating ‘but without brain function’ because of the extensive head injuries he sustained when he was assaulted on Friday. He was completely unresponsive and unable to breathe without ventilator support.
Sarabjit, 49, sustained severe injuries, including a fractured skull, when at least six prisoners attacked him in a barrack at Kot Lakhpat Jail on Friday afternoon. He was hit on the head with bricks and had been comatose in hospital since then.

Police have booked two death row prisoners – Amer Aftab and Mudassar – for the attack. They reportedly told investigators that they had attacked Sarabjit because he had allegedly carried out bomb attacks in Lahore. No action has been taken so far against officials of the jail for failing to provide adequate security to Sarabjit.

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