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Prisoner dies in shootout at Bengaluru hospital
Bengaluru, Aug 17 A 22-year-old mentally-ill prisoner succumbed to death late Sunday after he was critically injured in a shootout at a state-run hospital here, police said.
"The under trial, Vishwanath, succumbed to injuries he sustained during the shootout at Nimhans," Additional Police Commissioner C.H. Pratap Reddy told IANS.
In a tweet, Reddy said: "Nimhans prisoner operated upon. Despite the best efforts, he (prisoner) succumbed to the injuries sustained during commando operation."
The shootout took place around 7 p.m. at the state-run National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (Nimhans) where Vishwanath locked himself up in a room after firing about 20 rounds indiscriminately with a .303 rifle he snatched from a guard escorting him from the central jail for a check-up.
Known to be a notorious rowdy, Vishwanath was arrested in July 2012 in Bengaluru on a murder charge and lodged in the central jail on the city's outskirts since then, pending trial.
"After jail doctors recommended treatment for Vishwanath's mental illness and fiery temper, he was referred to Nimhans for misbehaving with other inmates and turning violent," Deputy Commissioner of Police (South) B.S. Lokesh Kumar told reporters earlier.
According to a witness, gun shots were heard around 3 p.m. from a patients' ward, resulting in commotion, panic and screaming by many in-patients.
As Vishwanath was being taken inside the hospital, he asked the escorting guard to allow him to go to the toilet.
Emerging out of it, he suddenly snatched the .303 SLR (self-loading rifle) with chain-belt of bullets from the guard's hand and threatened to kill him and in-patients if they tried to capture him.
Police summoned Garuda commandos of the internal security, trained to deal with such situations, to neutralise Vishwanath and take him out alive.
"The commandos cordoned off the building in which the prisoner was holed up after in-patients were shifted to other wards," Kumar said.
Being Sunday, the hospital in the southern suburb did not have many people, as out-patients are not seen on a holiday and majority of doctors had a day off.
Commissioner of Police N.S. Megharikh and ACP Reddy rushed to the hospital to supervise the operation.
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