Umpire dies from heart attack during cricket match in Karachi

Umpire Naseem Shaikh, a resident of Liaquatabad, had been suffering from heart disease and had earlier gone through an angiography.

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Naseem Shaikh was supervising a match of the Sindh Bar Council Cricket Tournament at the TMC ground on Monday when he suffered a fatal heart attack.—File photo

KARACHI: Umpire Naseem Shaikh passed away after he suffered a heart attack while supervising a cricket match here at the TMC ground on Monday.

He was rushed to a hospital but he breathed his last on the way.

Naseem Shaikh was supervising a match of the Sindh Bar Council Cricket Tournament.

Umpire Shaikh, a resident of Liaquatabad, had been suffering from heart disease and had earlier gone through an angiography.