DHAKA: Former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon was on Sunday still facing ‘imminent’ death.

The Tel Aviv hospital where he is in critical condition said.

Sharon’s ‘heart is holding out better than we thought, but he’s still in danger of imminent death’, Tel Hashomer hospital director Zeev Rotstein told public radio, reports The Straits Times.

‘I am more pessimistic than I was before.’

BDST: 1629 HRS, JAN 05, 2014
Edited by Robab Rosan, Current Affairs Editor