Former Dawood Ibrahim aide dies in Mumbai hospital of heart ailment

Mumbai: A former aide of fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim and an accused in the 1993 JJ shootout case Monday died in Jaslok Hospital in south Mumbai, medical authorities said.

Shakeel Ahmed Sheikh, also known as Lambu Shakeel, was suffering from a heart ailment, a hospital official said.

Details of his ailment and death would be released later in an official statement from the hospital, the official added.