NT: President emerges from coma, speaks to family

AAP General News (Australia)
02-21-2008
NT: President emerges from coma, speaks to family

DARWIN, Feb 21 AAP - East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta has begun waking from an
induced coma and has started talking to family members at his bedside, doctors say.

The president, airlifted to Darwin after being shot twice in the back outside his home
in Dili during an assassination attempt early last week, was briefly conscious last Friday.

But doctors at Royal Darwin Hospital (RDH) decided to sedate him again ahead of his
fifth …