London - The Indian terrorism suspect who has died of the severe burns sustained during the attempted car bombing of Glasgow airport in Britain was kept on a life-support machine as doctors "knew he would not survive," the Sun newspaper reported Friday. The paper said 27-year-old Kafeel Ahmed, from Bangalore, India, suffered third-degree burns as he attempted to drive a fuel-filled Jeep into the main terminal of the Scottish airport on June 30.
The attack followed an attempted car bombing in London a day earlier, believed to have been aimed at a crowded nightclub.
According to the Sun, Ahmed had been kept on a life-support machine since the attack. His death on a private ward on a special burns unit at Glasgow's Royal Infirmary was announced late Thursday.
Ahmed, an engineer, worked at the Royal Alexander Hospital in Paisley, near Glasgow, where he had moved only weeks before the attack.
He had been studying at Cambridge, in Britain, and at Queen's University in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
The cost of treating and guarding him in intensive care at Glasgow Royal Infirmary was estimated at 30,000 pounds (60,000 dollars) a day, said the Sun.
It reported that Ahmed had been treated using a revolutionary process which involves a skin substitute made from shark cartilage and cows' tendons.
A chemical in the shark skin prevents a scar from forming and allows the body to produce a skin-like tissue.
His brother, Sabeel Ahmed, who was arrested in Liverpool after the attacks, is one of three doctors charged in connection with the attempted car bombings.
