Sanjaya Rowan Kumara, a Sri Lankan national who was executed in Kuwait for murdering an Asian woman during a robbery remained alive five hours after he was hanged and pronounced dead, newspapers reported yesterday. Najeeb al-Mulla of the Ministry of Justice, who supervised the hanging, told Al-Watan newspaper the report was "baseless."
Kumara was pronounced dead by doctors eight minutes after he was hanged but medics who transported his body to a morgue said they noticed he was still moving. Forensic experts were immediately called to examine the body and they confirmed that "there was some weak pulse in his heart," the daily said. The examination was repeated several times and each time "the dead body showed some signs of life."
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