CPR switch: Chest presses first, then give breaths

New guidelines out Monday switch up the steps for CPR, telling rescuers to start with hard, fast chest presses before giving mouth-to-mouth.

The change puts "the simplest step first" for traditional CPR, said Dr. Michael Sayre, co-author of the guidelines issued by the American Heart Association.

In recent years, CPR guidance has been revised to put more emphasis on chest pushes for sudden cardiac arrest. In 2008, the heart group said untrained bystanders or those unwilling to do rescue breaths could do hands-only CPR until paramedics arrive or a defibrillator is used to restore a normal heart beat.

Now, the group says everyone from professionals to bystanders who use standard CPR should begin with chest compressions instead of opening the victim's airway and breathing into their mouth first.

The change ditches the old ABC training - airway-breathing-compressions. That called for rescuers to give two breaths first, then alternate with 30 presses.

Sayre said that approach took time and delayed chest presses, which keep the blood circulating.

Facebook admits its third-party developers have mishandled private data

In what could be potentially damaging to a company already being criticized over its privacy issues, Facebook admitted late Sunday that it had knowledge of developers passing information called user ..

NY police chief calls death of Danroy Henry a 'truly tragic situation'

The police chief whose officers were involved in the fatal shooting of Easton native Danroy Henry today called the Pace University student's death a "truly tragic situation.

Mongolia’s fabled mine stirs Asian frontier

A feeling of expectation hung in the air early one September morning as a group of bankers emerged from the aging, Soviet-era chic of Ulan Bator’s Chinggis Khaan Hotel en route to a two-hour flight deep into the Gobi Desert, which blankets Mongolia’s southern frontier.

Their destination, about 80km from China’s northern border, was Oyu Tolgoi, which bankers, geologists, journalists, and the mine’s main developer Ivanhoe Mines Ltd routinely describe as one of the world’s largest untapped copper and gold deposits. Ivanhoe, led by the colourful American-born billionaire Robert Friedland, owns 66 per cent of the mine, and the Mongolian government the rest.

“This is going to be among the top five mines in size around the world,” Keith Marshall, president and CEO of Oyu Tolgoi LLC told a conference in Mongolia’s capital, Ulan Bator. “The only way to describe it is that it is just an awesome deposit. I have been 30 years in the mining industry and I haven’t seen anything quite like this.”

Landlocked Mongolia lingered in isolation for 70 years as a Soviet satellite state, serving as a sleepy buffer zone between its giant neighbours, Russia and China. Now, a young democratic government, in power since the early 1990s, is trying to pull its three million citizens out of poverty by exploiting vast amounts of untapped mineral wealth underneath the country’s deserts and grasslands.

Jailed China Nobel winner asks wife to collect prize

Jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo has asked his wife to travel to Norway to pick up his Nobel Peace Prize, she said today.

“Xiaobo told me he hopes I can go to Norway to receive the prize for him,” Liu Xia said by telephone from her house where she is under virtual house arrest.

“I think it will be very difficult,” she added, when asked if she thought the government would allow her to go.

Liu Xia said the government had not yet explicitly told her she would not be allowed to go to Norway. The prize will be formally bestowed on December 10 in Oslo.

China said today that giving the Nobel Peace Prize to a jailed dissident showed a lack of respect for its legal system, in further criticism of an award that has stirred tensions over human rights.

Liu Xia, the wife of Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, holds a photo of her husband during an interview in Beijing October 3, 2010. She has been asked by her husband to collect the prize on his behalf

China slams Nobel prize for dissident as ‘disrespectful’

Giving the Nobel Peace Prize to a jailed dissident showed lack of respect for China’s legal system, the government said today, in further criticism of an award that has stirred tensions over human rights.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu said that the prize, awarded to Liu Xiaobo, would not affect the direction of China’s political system, and repeated that it had damaged relations with Norway, where the peace prize committee is based.

“Giving the Nobel Peace Prize to a criminal serving a prison sentence shows a lack of respect for China’s judicial system,” Ma told a regular news briefing in Beijing.

China has condemned the Norwegian government, which has no say over the prize, and cancelled a planned meeting with a Norwegian fisheries minister.

A security officer gestures at the entrance of a residential compound where Liu’s wife lives in Beijing October 8, 2010

British photographer wins £82,000 damages after US porn firm uses picture of her AGED 14 on cover of explicit DVD

A photographer who sued a US porn film company for using a picture of her aged 14 on the cover of one of its DVDs has won £82,000 damages.

Lara Jade Coton was ‘horrified’ that her self-portrait, which was on the internet, had been used as the DVD cover and face art for the sexually explicit film Body Magic without her permission.

Miss Coton went on to sue the firm, TVX Films of Texas, after she complained and received an email blaming her for disappointing sales of the DVD, her lawyer Richard Harrison said.

A self portrait of Lara Jade Coton taken when she was 14-years-old appeared as the cover of the pornographic film Body Magic

Professional photographer Miss Coton has been awarded £82,000 in damages

Rescued Chile miner joyous, but also talks of devil

Trapped deep inside the earth for 69 days, Mario Sepulveda never lost his sense of humour, so when he was finally pulled to safety today, he brought a souvenir with him – a bag of rocks.

The rocks, which Sepulveda gave out to rescue workers, appeared to be wrapped in silver tinfoil. Hundreds of people watching on a TV feed giggled as he brought a touch of humour to a tense and riveting operation to free him and 32 other men from a collapsed mine here in northern Chile.

Miner Claudio Yanez kisses his wife after arriving as the eighth miner to be hoisted to the surface in Copiapo October 13, 2010.

Taiwan to allow small brothels in law change

Taiwan’s government plans to allow sex workers to set up small businesses in the latest change to laws that had once forced the huge industry underground, the interior ministry said.

In a statement on its website, the ministry said it would consider brothels of three to five staff away from areas frequented by children. It will put plans to a Cabinet committee by the end of the year.

The ministry ruled out earlier proposals to set up red-light districts or allow larger businesses due to concerns among members of its committee set up to study the issue that such measures would turn the sex trade into a regular industry.

Taiwan-born sex worker Niko, 47, poses for a photograph after an interview with Reuters inside a brothel in Taipei June 24, 2009

FBI got tip about American in Mumbai attacks

The FBI received a tip three years before the 2008 Mumbai attacks that an American man who helped scout the targets was tied to the Pakistani group behind the plot, the Washington Post reported yesterday.

The man, David Headley, pleaded guilty in March to a dozen US terrorism charges related to the Mumbai attacks in which 166 people were killed, and to a plot to attack a Danish newspaper that had published cartoons in 2005 that lampooned the Prophet Mohammed.

He admitted to scouting the targets for the Islamist militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and agreed to help investigators and give testimony against others in exchange for a promise that he would not be extradited to India, Pakistan or Denmark.

The Washington Post reported that the FBI received a tip in 2005 about Headley’s involvement from his wife after the two were in a domestic dispute that resulted in his arrest.

Pigeons fly near the burning Taj Mahal hotel in Mumbai November 27, 2008.

Radical Islamists aim to infiltrate Hamburg mosques

Radical Islamists from a shut down Hamburg mosque linked to the September 11 attacks on the United States are now trying to infiltrate other mosques in and around the German city, according to officials and Muslim leaders.

Small groups of radicals have turned up at several mosques trying to establish a new meeting place since the Taiba Mosque, where the 9/11 leader Mohammad Atta once prayed, was raided and closed by police in August, they told Reuters.

With radicals no longer grouped around one mosque near the city’s main train station, security services have stepped up their observation of Islamists around the city and Muslim associations are on the lookout for suspicious newcomers.

“There are small groups of three to five people from the former Taiba Mosque who have gone to other mosques,” said Ralf Kunz, internal affairs spokesman for the city government.

Individual radicals have turned up “at lots of mosques, both in Hamburg and the surrounding region,” he said. “They have not been able to assemble at any mosque.”

People walk past the entrance of the Taiba Mosque in Hamburg October 6, 2010.

Two of four trapped Ecuadorean miners found dead

Two of four men trapped in an Ecuadorean mine cave-in were found dead on Saturday in the latest accident to hit the industry in Latin America.

Contrasting with the jubilation at this week’s rescue of 33 miners in Chile, the two Ecuadorean miners’ bodies were brought out to disconsolate relatives and officials at the small gold mine in Portovelo near the Peruvian border.

Japan PM wants China to ensure citizens’ safety

Japan’s prime minister on Monday urged China to ensure the safety of Japanese citizens and firms and called for calm after Chinese protesters took to the streets over a territorial feud straining ties between Asia’s top economies.

Sino-Japanese relations deteriorated sharply last month after Japan detained a Chinese trawler captain whose boat collided with Japanese patrol ships near the disputed islands -- called Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China.

Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan’s comments to parliament were followed by remarks from Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara that China’s actions in the dispute were “extremely hysterical,” underlining the difficulty of putting a quick end to the spat.

Australia’s first saint: Nun who exposed sexual abuse

Pope Benedict today gave Australia its first saint, a 19th century "whistleblower" nun who activists say should be the patron of victims of sexual abuse by priests because she was punished for exposing it.

At a solemn ceremony in St Peter's Square, the pope canonised Mother Mary MacKillop as well as five other church figures from Poland, Canada, Spain, and Italy who lived in the 15th to 20th centuries.

A boy holds a book showing new Australian Saint Mary of the Cross MacKillop as Pope Benedict XVI leads a solemn mass for the canonisation of six new saints in Saint Peter's square at the Vatican October 17, 2010.

Eight virus types cause almost all cervical cancer

Scientists have identified the eight human papillomavirus (HPV) types responsible for more than 90 per cent of cervical cancer cases worldwide and say they should be the targets for the next generation of vaccines.

Drugmakers GlaxoSmithKline and Merck & Co. already make vaccines against HPV strains that cause many cases of cervical cancer, which is the second most common cancer in women worldwide and is expected to kill 328,000 this year.

Myanmar bars foreign monitors, reporters from poll

Myanmar, Oct 18 — International poll monitors and foreign journalists will be barred from Myanmar’s first election in 20 years, its military rulers said on Monday, deepening concern that next month’s poll will be a sham.

The United States, Britain and Myanmar’s Southeast Asian neighbours had urged the junta to allow independent election monitors at the Nov. 7 election, which critics say will cement the military’s grip on power under the guise of civilian rule.

Members of the opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) party wait for guests in front of posters of national hero Burmese general Aung San, father of Myanmar's detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, at the party headquarters May 27, 2009, before a ceremony to mark the 19th anniversary of the 1990 general election where the NLD won 392 of 485 parliamentary seats.

Super typhoon hits Philippines as Asia braces itself for worst storm of the year

A super typhoon with 140mph winds hit the Philippines today in the worst storm to hit the country in years.

Typhoon Megi hit the northern Isabela province at shortly before 6am UK time.

Thousands of villagers fled to safety amid fears that rice harvests could also be wiped out by the ensuing floods.

Eye of the storm: Typhoon Megi approaches the northern Philippines. It is also set to hit China and Vietnam

Woman who stabbed abusive husband to death is acquitted

A nursing assistant who stabbed her husband to death has been acquitted of his murder after a court heard she suffered years of domestic abuse.

Donna Cobb, 42, plunged a butter knife into Kevin Cobb's heart in self-defence during a violent struggle at their home in Harlem, New York, on a night in November 2006.

Her husband was high on cocaine when he returned home at 3am and attacked her while screaming that he was going to kill her, the court was told.

Cleared: Donna Cobb plunged a butter knife into her husband in self-defence during a violent struggle at their home in New York in November 2006

Britain is losing its battle against Islamic extremists says French MP who banned the burqa

Britain is 'losing the battle against Islamic extremism' by failing to outlaw burqas, the architect of the French ban said today.

Jacques Myard, a senior member of President Nicolas Sarkozy’s ruling UMP party, said relaxed UK policies had ‘opened the door to terrorism’.

He added: ‘Allowing women to exclude themselves from society by wearing the full Islamic veil makes radicals extremely comfortable, and Britain should realise this.’

Man behind the burqa ban: Jacques Myard, a member of Nicolas Sarkozy's ruling UMP party, said relaxed UK policies have 'opened the door to terrorism'

'For 14 days we were all in pitch darkness. There was no night and no day. We begged God to help us': The amazing first interview with one of the trapped Chilean miners

He is the undisputed star of the Chilean mine rescue. When Mario Sepulveda became the second miner to surface after 69 days trapped half-a-mile below ground, his cheeky gift of souvenir rocks for the Chilean president combined with his wildly enthusiastic chants of ‘Viva Chile’ alongside his rescuers led to him being dubbed Super Mario on newspaper front pages around the world.

Since his rescue, the charismatic 40-year-old heavy-equipment operator has been deluged with lucrative media offers, including the chance to host his own Chilean TV show.

But yesterday Mario, speaking from his hospital bed before being released last night – leaving only one of the 33 in the care of doctors – spoke exclusively to The Mail on Sunday and revealed how his jaunty facade was hiding a man tormented by the ‘nightmare’ of what he and the others faced for the initial 17 days after they were trapped – fearing they would starve to death in their underground tomb.

Together again: Mario Sepulveda with his daughter Scarlette, wife Katty and son Franco. Mario has broken the miners 'pact of silence' as he believes there are certain truths about his time in the mine which need to be told

On his way: Mario was the second miner to make the journey to the surface

Moment grieving mother fights off violent mugger's attack as he tries to steal her phone... with a video of her dead baby on it

This is the horrifying moment a mother is punched to the ground by a violent mugger trying to steal her purse.

But the brave woman fights the thug off in a desperate bid to keep hold of her purse - because inside it was a recording of her dead baby calling her 'Mommy'.

The unnamed woman was punched in the face and dragged along the street in the Venice beach area of Los Angeles.

One of the possessions in the bag was a mobile phone with recordings of her infant daughter Minty on it.

Ready to die: Footage shows the unnamed mother and her baby daughter, Minty, who died ten weeks ago of cancer

Not letting go: The defiant woman is dragged into the road by her attacker

Multiculturalism in Germany had been a "total failure.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel joined her country's increasingly acrimonious debate about immigration over the weekend, declaring that multiculturalism in Germany had been a "total failure.

Mother sues Tyra Bank's show for $3m after her daughter, 15, was flown to New York to appear in episode on sex addiction

Chat show host Tyra Banks is being sued for $3million (£2million) by the mother of a teenage girl who appeared on her show to talk about sex addiction.

Beverley McClendon has filed a lawsuit against the former model for allowing her 15-year-old daughter Jewel to appear without her permission.

She claims her daughter was paid to fly to New York alone and take part in the studio discussion on teen sex addiction.

Lawsuit: Beverley McClendon is suing The Tyra Banks Show after she claimed it flew her daughter to New York to appear on a show about teenage sex addiction

NATO official: Bin Laden, deputy hiding in northwest Pakistan

Osama bin Laden and his deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri are believed to be hiding close to each other in houses in northwest Pakistan, but are not together, a senior NATO official said.

"Nobody in al Qaeda is living in a cave," said the official, who declined to be named because of the sensitivity of the intelligence matters involved.

Rather, al Qaeda's top leadership is believed to be living in relative comfort, protected by locals and some members of the Pakistani intelligence services, the official said.

Pakistan has repeatedly denied protecting members of the al Qaeda leadership.

Osama bin Laden living in luxury in northwest Pakistan, says senior Nato official

Osama bin Laden is living a comfortable life and hiding out in a house in northwest Pakistan, according to Nato officials.

The Al Qaeda leader has not been scuttled away to a network of caves, but instead is living life as the world’s most wanted man in conventional surroundings.

His deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri is also hiding out in a separate house in an area close to bin Laden under similar arrangements, the official claimed.

After 9/11 the hunt for bin Laden and the Al Qaeda leadership focused on the remote Tora Bora region of Afghanistan which is known for its huge warren of caves burrowed into the mountains.


* Al Qaeda leader alive and well in Kurram Valley region
* 'We are running out of time,' Nato official warns
* Up to 1m 'disaffected' men aged 15-25 in border review

Osama bin Laden is believed to be in north west Pakistan, and his deputy is Ayman al-Zawahiri is nearby

French strikes force petrol stations to shut

Police and protesters clash in Nanterre as vehicles are set on fire

About 1,500 petrol stations in France have run dry or are about to close as fuel supplies are hit by strikes over government pension reforms, officials say.

A blockade of oil refineries is into its seventh day and the body that supplies most supermarkets says one in four petrol stations is affected.

Super typhoon Megi 'biggest in 20 years'

The roof flies off a house as super typhoon Megi hits Ilagan City, Isabela province, northern Philippines. (Reuters: Stringer ) The Philippines has declared a state of calamity in a northern province after super typhoon Megi made landfall..

Taboo-breaking Berlin exhibition chronicles Hitler's hold over German society

The knuckle-dusters, truncheons and jackboots in the first case of a new exhibition on 'Hitler and the Germans' in Berlin sets the tone for a stark look at how German society embraced the Nazi regime in all its brutality.

While lots of memorabilia is on show, from SS and Gestapo uniforms to a sideboard from Hitler's office, the exhibition shows how all levels of German society - media, industry, the church, schools -- built up the Hitler cult in the 1930s and clung to it through World War II until defeat was imminent.

Some media have portrayed the show opening on Friday in the German Historical Museum as a taboo-breaking first exhibition on Adolf Hitler himself. But the curators are at pains to stress that their focus is on the society that created the dictator.

'Germany awake!': This Nazi flag is one of the displays at the Hitler And The Germans ¿ Nation And Crime' exhibition which has opened at the German Historical Museum

Uniforms worn by the military and Nazi party officials form part of the exhibition which is seen by some as breaking the taboo of examining how complicit German society was in the rise of Hitler

The poster on the left shows the different 'German races' and the one on the right warns of the dangers of 'inferior races' having more children than 'higher quality' ones

Families of 7/7 victims shown footage of suicide ringleader pushing supermarket trolley packed with bomb-making equipment

Calmly pushing a trolley through a supermarket, the ringleader of the 7/7 attacks shops for equipment to make his deadly bombs.

Mohammed Sidique Khan, 30, was caught on CCTV strolling through a branch of Asda the day before the atrocity.

With him was fellow-bomber Shehzad Tanweer, 22. He filled the trolley with icepacks, used to cool the gang’s deadly home-made explosives, the July 7 inquest was told.

The grainy pictures show the killers carrying out their final preparations for the attacks, which left 52 dead in London.

Other CCTV footage revealed for the first time yesterday showed some of the Islamic extremists shopping for bomb-making equipment at B&Q.

Khan was also caught on a hospital camera taking his pregnant wife Hasina Patel for a check. Three of the bombers were later captured on film during a ‘reconnaissance mission’ around London on June 28, a week before the 2005 bombings.

The pictures show the men surrounded by busy commuters and other innocent passers-by.

Some witnesses who saw them on their final journey into London, on July 7 itself, described how they had thought the ‘smiling and laughing’ men were going on holiday, or members of a sports team.

Stocking up: 7/7 bombers Mohammed Sidique Khan and Shehzad Tanweer caught on CCTV in Asda, Leeds, buying the final supplies for their deadly mission

Plans: The bombers - highlighted by coloured arrows - are shown during their reconnaissance mission to the capital

The group 'acted completely natural', the inquest heard today

British aid worker had ESCAPED Taliban captors and was in foetal position when elite troops detonated grenade

A British aid worker who died during a botched raid on the compound where she was being held hostage had escaped her captors and was hiding when a U.S. grenade killed her.

Linda Norgrove was cowering in a foetal position when troops detonated the deadly grenade.

Now an elite U.S. commando is facing disciplinary action over the death of the 36-year-old after it emerged he failed to tell his commanding officers he had used a grenade.


* Soldier faces disciplinary action after failing to reveal grenade was used
* Troops did not spot hostage even though they had night-vision goggles
* U.S. commanders watched the horror unfold on big screens at mission HQ
* Miss Norgrove's body arrives back in Britain on military plane

Tragic: Aid worker Linda Norgrove had worked in South America and the Far East before Afghanistan

Private Wojtek, the 35-stone 'soldier bear' which drank, smoked and battled the Nazis, remembered with £200,000 statue

A bear which 'fought' alongside Polish soldiers during the Second World War is to be honoured with a £200,000 statue in Edinburgh.

'Private Wojtek' was a 6ft-tall 35 stone Syrian brown bear which was adopted by a Polish regiment stationed in the Middle East .

When Allied commanders issued an order that troops advancing on Rome were not to be accompanied by animals, the bear was promptly enlisted in the 22nd Transport Division (Artillery Supply) of the Polish 2nd Army Corps.

Wojtek, which means - 'he who enjoys war' or 'smiling warrior' - became a popular figure, enjoying treats of beers and cigarettes given to him by soldiers.

Gentle giant: The 6ft-tall bear weighed 35 stone and 'fought' his way across Europe with Polish troops

Friendship: Private Wojtek and handler Peter Prendys will be memorialised in a statue to be put up in Edinburgh. The bear accompanied Polish soldiers during their march across the Middle East and Europe during the Second World War

CCTV footage show Queensland Police brutality torture in session.

Police release shocking CCTV video of officer inflicting water torture on suspect

Shocking video footage of a 'cowardly' Australian police officer abusing detainees has been released.

Ben Price is first shown throwing a 21-year-old woman to the floor, then pulling her up by her hair.

The ex-Queensland police officer is then shown committing an horrific five-minute assault on a 23-year-old man.

Price can be seen punching and kneeing a bleeding, handcuffed Timothy Steele, 23, in May 25, 2008.

He puts Mr Steele in a brutal spine lock and leaves the commercial diver with a broken nose and two blackened eyes, cuts and bruising to the face.

Other police officers look on - but none intervene - as Price stuffs a running fire hose into his victim's mouth, nearly drowning him.
 

Benjamin Price (pictured) was jailed for 27 months earlier this week after pleading guilty to four counts of serious assault

CCTV footage: Another video shows Price assaulting 21-year-old barmaid Renee Toms

Torture: Benjamin Price was caught on CCTV shoving a hose pipe down the throat of 24-year-old Timothy Steele

Ahmadinejad heads to Lebanon's border with Israel in 'provocative' trip as Hezbollah supporters turn out in force

Thousands of Hezbollah supporters jammed a stadium for a visit by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in southern Lebanon, near the border with Israel today.

Both the U.S. and Israel have described the trip as 'intentionally provocative.'

On the road heading south, schoolchildren handed out leaflets on the best route to Bint Jbeil, a border village in south Lebanon's Shiite heartland where the Iranian leader was to speak later in the afternoon.


Ahmadinejad arrived in Lebanon yesterday to a rapturous welcome organized by Hezbollah, the powerful Shiite militant group backed by Iran. The second day of his state visit demonstrates Iran's support for Hezbollah's fight against Israel.

Israel, however, has described the Iranian President's visit as a 'landlord inspecting his domain'.


Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad flashes a V sign during a rally organized by Hezbollah in the southern border town of Bint Jbeil, Lebanon

Tens of thousands of Lebanese wave national and Iranian flags, as well as the yellow banners of Hezbollah, during a mass rally held in honour of the Iranian President in southern Lebanon

World's biggest motorcade? Thousands of Lebanese took to the streets to greet Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as he arrived in Beirut

Indian tycoon prepares to move into 27-storey sky palace First-ever $1bn home

This is the extravagant £630m ($1bn) home built by a billionaire Indian tycoon to house his family-of-four in Mumbai.

With 27 storeys, Antilia will be home to Mukesh Ambani and features a health club with a gym and dance studio, a ballroom, at least one swimming pool and a 50-seater cinema.

Towering above the Mumbai skyline, the 37,000sq ft property is 570ft high and also boasts three helipads on its roof, space for 160 vehicles on its lower floors and nine lifts.

Mr Ambani, 53, who owns much of oil, retail and bio-technology comglomerate Reliance Industries, paid £44million to build his dream property, but astronomical property values in the Indian city mean it is now worth 15 times that amount.

 

Extravagant: Construction work on the property can be seen. The 37,000 sq ft property features three helipads, a swimming pool and a four-storey hanging garden

Absolute luxury: Antilia, built by tycoon Mukesh Ambani for his family of four, towers 27-storeys over Mumbai, India

Indian pilot dies mid-flight

An Indian pilot working for Qatar Airwys has died mid-flight due to a massive heart attack after the plane took off from Manila, even as the aircraft landed safely at Kuala Lumpur.

Ajay Kukreja, 43, who has been working with the airline for five years, was flying QR645 with around 260 passengers on board on Thursday when the tragedy struck.

When Kukreja complained of chest pain the co-pilot requested permission from the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) authorities to land and asked that a medical team be on hand, a report in The Peninsula said.