Saturday, May 05, 2007

Bobby Sands dies in prison


ON THIS DAY 5 1981: Bobby Sands dies in prison:
Hunger striker Bobby Sands has died in prison 66 days after first refusing to eat.
The 27-year-old republican spent the last days of his life on a water bed to protect his fragile bones.
He had been in a coma for 48 hours before being pronounced dead by medical staff at the Maze prison in Northern Ireland.

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