The court has dropped the criminal case against a man accused of robbing a grocery store and threatening to burn it down, as he died of a sickle cell disease attack before a verdict could be issued.
The 27-year-old Bahraini defendant died on September 10 in Salmaniya Medical Complex, with his death certificate listing ‘vaso-occlusive crisis’ as cause of death, a common symptom of his chronic illness .
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