Airport bomb attack suspect dies in hospital

A terror suspect being treated for severe burns following a car bomb attack on Glasgow Airport has died in hospital, police said.

Kafeel Ahmed, 27, was being cared for at a specialist unit at Glasgow Royal Infirmary (GRI) after the incident on June 30.

A spokesman for Strathclyde Police said last night: "We can confirm that the man seriously injured during the course of the incident at Glasgow Airport on Saturday June 30 has died in Glasgow Royal Infirmary."

He said the man died yesterday evening, adding: "The circumstances surrounding the death have been reported to the procurator fiscal."

Ahmed was under police guard at GRI after being transferred from The Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley.

He was said to have suffered 90% burns in the incident and spent 33 days in hospital before succumbing to his injuries.

The engineer from Bangalore, India, was one of two men detained at the airport after a burning car was driven into the terminal building.

Fellow suspect Bilal Abdullah, 27, an Iraqi doctor, was arrested and charged with conspiring to cause explosions "of a nature likely to endanger life or cause serious injury".

A spokesman for the Scottish Executive said: "We understand that the suspect being treated following the Glasgow Airport attack has now died.

"There has been some comment about the treatment provided for him by the NHS.

"It was perfectly right that he should have received the appropriate treatment our health service could offer as this reflects the value our society places on human life.

"The focus now should be on the criminal investigation that is under way."

The Glasgow Airport attack followed two suspected car bomb attempts in central London when police discovered two vehicles allegedly laden with gas canisters and fuel.

Eight people were initially held over the incidents, of which three were eventually charged.

Mohammed Asha, 26, of Newcastle-Under-Lyme, Staffordshire, was arrested on the M6 motorway near Sandbach, in Cheshire, on the day of the airport attack.

He is accused along with Abdullah of conspiring to cause explosions between January 1 and July 1.

Dr Sabeel Ahmed, 26 and from Liverpool, is accused of not disclosing information that could have helped police arrest a suspected terrorist.

Ahmed was the only one of all eight people arrested in connection with the attacks that did not appear to have direct links to the NHS.

Abdullah had been working at the Royal Alexandra Hospital, where Ahmed was initially taken for treatment.

Asha had meanwhile been working at North Staffordshire Hospital in Stoke-on-Trent.

The two men are expected to appear at the Old Bailey on September 10 for a committal hearing.

Bangalore-born Sabeel Ahmed, said to have worked at a hospital in Warrington in the past, is the brother of Kafeel Ahmed.

Doctors at GRI said last month they had little hope of Ahmed surviving his injuries.

A medic told how he had third-degree burns over most of his torso and limbs.

"It is beyond repair and because he has lost so much skin he is now vulnerable to infection and won't be able to fight it," the doctor, speaking anonymously on July 11, said.