Another nurse dies of wounds

Published August 12, 2002

ISLAMABAD, Aug 11: A Pakistani nurse died on Sunday from wounds sustained during Friday’s grenade attack on a hospital chapel, taking the death toll among the female missionary staff to four, a hospital worker said.

Nasim Sultan of the Presbyterian hospital in Taxila, where the attack took place, said the woman died in the early hours of Sunday at the Pakistan Ordnance Factories Hospital in Wah, near Taxila.

He said two other nurses injured in the blast were still in a serious condition.

One was in a hospital in the capital Islamabad in a coma after suffering splinter wounds to her head, and the other was still at a hospital in Wah.—Reuters

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