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One of the two men that allegedly tried to bomb Glasgow international airport on June 30 died due to the third-degree burns suffered, police sources informed on Friday.
The 27-year-old engineer Kafeel Ahmed was in the flaming Jeep that crashed into the doors of Glasgow’s main airport more than a month ago. Most of his body was burned as he jumped from the blazing vehicle that was reportedly rigged as a bomb.
India-born Ahmed was immediately taken to the local hospital, where he spent the following period in a coma, doctors being circumspect regarding his chances of survival.
The police said he died late Thursday in Glasgow Royal Infirmary, where he was under close surveillance by both medical staff and policemen.
Ahmed and Bilal Abdullah drove a Jeep Cherokee filled with canisters of fuel into the airport’s main terminal doors, but aside from the Bangalore-born engineer no one was injured after the car bursted into flames.
He jumped out of the car with his clothes on fire, a police officer Stewart Ferguson managing to put out the flames with a fire extinguisher. Ahmed’s collaborator, an Iraqi doctor has been arrested by the British police and was charged with conspiracy to cause explosions.
Ahmed was kept alive using life-support equipment and modern practices, but even so his life couldn’t be saved.
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