Almotamar.net, Google News - Sana'a,12 Jul, Yemen - A Spanish woman wounded in the suicide car bomb attack that left seven Spanish tourists dead in east Yemen more than a week ago is "mentally dead," a Yemeni neurosurgical physician said Thursday.
Dr Muhammad al-Jaradi told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa that María Asuncion Vitorica underwent an electro encephalo gram (EEG) examination Wednesday, and that the test "only showed activity in the skin of her brain."
He added that this condition is considered as a "brain death." Al- Jaradi said the test, that gives information about the health and function of the brain, was carried out again on Thursday and that the results were sent to Spain.
He said the woman was in a "deep coma" and that she was on a ventilator since she was wounded in the attack in Marib province, around 190 kilometres east of the Yemeni capital Sana'a.
Meanwhile, an official at the Yemen Public Health and Population told almotamar.net Thursday that 5 Spanish women and a man, wounded in the terrorist attack in Marib, have recovered and returned to their country the beginning of this week. He added that except for one woman who is now mentally dead is still in Yemen and could not be carried to her country. The director of Al-Thawra Hospital in Sana'a Dr Ahmed al-Ansi said tow of the wounded in the attack were in serious condition and underwent necessary surgical operations in Yemen until they recovered.
Dr al-Ansi added only one Spanish wounded woman was still at the intensive care in the hospital suffering from brain death as a result of injury of some parts of the brain, clarifying that the joint Spanish Yemeni medical team has operated on a surgical operation but her condition did nor improve.
Medical sources in the al-Thawra hospital in Sana'a, to which Vitorica was admitted after the attack, said an EEG test would be carried out for the third time on Friday or Saturday.
The attack took place on July 2 near an archaeological site in Marib, and Yemeni government officials blamed it on the terrorist network al-Qaeda.
At least 14 suspects linked to the attack had been arrested in Sana'a and in the provinces of Aden and Shabwa as well as Marib, where the attack took place.
Police stormed an apartment in Sana'a on July 5, and killed an Egyptian man believed to be linked to the Marib attack.