An Indian medical student, who was in a coma at a trauma centre after being attacked by local goons in the Russian city of Kazan, has died, external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj said Wednesday.
An Indian medical student, who was in a coma at a trauma centre after being attacked by local goons in the Russian city of Kazan, has died, external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj said Wednesday. “I am pained to inform you that Yasir — an Indian medical student from Srinagar — has succumbed to his injuries in Russia,” Ms Swaraj tweeted. Yasir was admitted to a trauma centre in Kazan the capital city of Russian province of Tatarstan, according to news agency reports. On Tuesday, she had directed Indian ambassador in Russia Pankaj Saran to extend all possible help to Yasir after receiving an SOS through a tweet that the student was in a hospital in coma after being attacked by local goons, who also took away his money and documents. She had Tuesday said the Indian mission will take up the case with Russian authorities. “I have got the complete report on Yasir. An Indian doctor is treating him in Kazan Trauma Centre in Russia. Our embassy officials will go and see Yasir in hospital Wednesday. We will bear all expenses on his treatment,” she had said in a tweet Wednesday.
