Doctors at a Scottish hospital are using an expensive skin substitute in an effort to save an alleged terrorist burned in an attack on Glasgow Airport.
Kafeel Ahmed, 27, was one of two men who tried to drive an SUV loaded with flammable substances into the main terminal entrance. The other man is in custody on terrorism charges.
Doctors at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary are using a substance made from shark cartilage and cow tendons for skin grafts, The Telegraph reported.
"Ahmed is being treated with these grafts because there is nothing left on his body that can be used," a source at the hospital told the newspaper. "He is receiving the latest technology to try to heal the skin -- but there is still little hope of him surviving."
Like other suspects in the airport attack and an abortive attempt to set off car bombs in central London, Ahmed is a doctor.
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