Sarabjit Singh dead

Updated - November 16, 2021 08:31 pm IST - ISLAMABAD

In this Aug. 22, 2005 file picture, Swapandeep Kaur shows a photograph of her father Sarabjit Singh to the media at her residence at Bhikhiwind, near Amritsar. The Indian death row prisoner died at Jinnah Hospital in Lahore early Thursday.

In this Aug. 22, 2005 file picture, Swapandeep Kaur shows a photograph of her father Sarabjit Singh to the media at her residence at Bhikhiwind, near Amritsar. The Indian death row prisoner died at Jinnah Hospital in Lahore early Thursday.

Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh breathed his last around 12-45 a.m. on Thursday at Lahore's Jinnah Hospital where he had been on life-support since April 26 after being brutally attacked in Kot Lakhpat Jail by fellow inmates.

News of his death broke soon after though there was no official announcement. Details of his death were sketchy. It appears he was taken off the ventilator after his condition worsened towards the middle of the night. Security was beefed up around the hospital and the mortuary soon after television channels began reporting his death

He had sustained severe head injuries and had slipped into coma soon after admission to the Jinnah Hospital last Friday. Hours before his death, diplomatic sources had indicated that Pakistan was “positively considering'' his repatriation to India. His family had returned to India on Wednesday morning after spending three days with him in Lahore.

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