MUMBAI: A doctor from Lilavati Hospital in Mumbai, where former Maharashtra minister Baba Siddique was taken after being shot, has said that Siddique likely died before reaching the medical facility.
Siddique was unconscious when he was brought to the hospital on Saturday night after being shot. Doctors attempted for nearly two hours to save him but were unsuccessful, the doctor stated.
The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader, aged 66, was ambushed by three men outside his son, MLA Zeeshan Siddique's office at Kher Nagar in Bandra, Mumbai. He was immediately rushed to Lilavati Hospital, where he was declared dead.
Speaking to reporters following the incident, a doctor at Lilavati Hospital said: "There were two wounds from gunshots at the front of his chest. There was a lot of blood loss, and he was unconscious when his family members brought him to the hospital."
When asked if Baba Siddique had died before reaching the hospital, one of the doctors responded: "It is possible. There was no response from him when he was brought in. He was unconscious. We undertook resuscitation, but Siddique was declared dead at 11:27 pm on Saturday."
The doctors explained that although Siddique was taken first to the emergency ward and then to the ICU, "there was no heart activity."
As for other injuries the NCP leader may have sustained, the doctors said that the autopsy would reveal the exact number and nature of wounds. "We had no time to check how many gunshot-related wounds were there. The post-mortem will reveal further details," they added.
