Hosni Mubarak, former Egyptian president is ‘brain dead’

Egypt, June 20, 2012

According to sources in the security services “Mubarak is ‘in coma and connected to a ventilator.”

On Tuesday, reported the official news agency MENA, “former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak 84, was rushed by helicopter to the military hospital of Cairo neighborhood of Maadi, where he remains clinically dead.”

Two sources of security services consulted by Reuters news agency said that “it is too early to confirm that Mubarak is clinically dead but is ‘totally in coma and ‘with life support’.”

Medical sources cited by the same news agency say: “Mubarak on Tuesday suffered a heart attack and the resuscitation efforts failed to keep him alive.”