2 painkiller pills kill 20-year-old Saudi

A 20-year-old Saudi man died nearly four months after he plunged into coma when he had two pain-killer pills to treat his teeth pain.

The man had been advised to have a one 500-mg pill but he gulped two together to kill the excruciating pain in his teeth and gum.

“He went into coma just after having those two tablets and remained unconscious in hospital for nearly four months until he died on Thursday,” Sabq newspaper said in a report from the western Saudi town of Khurma.

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