The unnamed man was pronounced dead by a U.S. military doctor at Camp Bucca around 6 p.m. Saturday, officials said.
According to a news release issued Sunday by the Multi-National Force-Iraq, “medics responded to one of the compounds, where a detainee was complaining of chest pains and quickly moved the detainee to a hospital.”
The man, whose nationality was not released, went into cardiac seizure and died after resuscitation efforts failed, the military said. The detainee had been held at Camp Bucca in southern Iraq since December 2004 “as a security threat to Iraq,” officials said.
...The man is the third prisoner to die of apparent natural causes in U.S. custody in recent weeks. An investigation into the incident will be conducted, the military said. Camp Bucca holds some 6,000 prisoners from Iraq and other countries.
Monday, May 16, 2005
30-year-old Iraqi detainee dies of apparent heart attack
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