CAIRO: The most recent victim of Egypt's revolution died on Tuesday after being in a coma for over five months. Attef Yehiya, 22, a computer science graduate was shot in the back of the head by policemen on May 15, when he attended a large protest, where thousands marched to the Israeli embassy calling for the peace treaty to be revised. Yehia was hit while running from teargas and gun shots with others in the crowd. The ministry of interior said at the time that police officers were not armed and denied that they shot at the protesters. It was confirmed in the hospital report that he was shot and had entered a coma as a result of his brain injury. Yehia's friends said he had gone back to help a woman and her daughter cross the street to flee the gun shots and was hit hit from the back, when they hurried him into a hospital. The young man was then transfereed to Qasr al-Aini hopistal after the first hospital was not well-equipped. Yehia's friends said the hospital left him bleeding for 48 hours until he was operated on. The hospital told them the bullet is stable and his condition would not deteriorate, but he fell later into a coma. Yehia was dubbed as the “living martyr” until his death. BM
