Thursday, August 2, 2007

British bombing suspect dies in hospital

The cousin of Indian doctor Mohamed Haneef, who crashed a vehicle packed with gas canisters into Glasgow airport, has died in hospital of the burns he sustained in the failed June 30 car bomb attack.

Khalid Ahmed, 27, also known as Kafeel, reportedly suffered 90 per cent burns to his skin in the attack on Scotland’s biggest airport, which came a day after a linked failed incident in London.

Ahmed, an engineer from Bangalore in India, drove a Jeep Cherokee laden with propane gas canisters into the front of the terminal, setting the sports utility vehicle and part of the building ablaze.

He was in a critical condition and was being kept under armed police guard in a hospital specialist unit.

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