Meghalaya Speaker dead

Shillong/Gurgaon, July 28 

Meghalaya Assembly Speaker Donkupar Roy passed away on Sunday at a hospital in Gurgaon following a brief illness, officials said. He was 64.

 Roy, a former chief minister of the state, was first admitted to a state-run hospital in Shillong before being referred to a hospital in Gurgaon where he was undergoing treatment for the last 10 days, his family members said.

His condition deteriorated after suffering multi-organ failure on Sunday, they said.  “He was brought to our hospital on July 18 and succumbed to multi-organ failure at 2.43 pm today," a senior doctor said. — PTI