Mubarak 'defibrillated twice after heart stops'

Ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, who has been in critical condition since moving to prison, was defibrillated twice after his heart stopped on Monday, a prison hospital source told AFP. Mubarak's "heart stopped twice. Doctors had to use a defibrillator. He has been in and out of consciousness and has been refusing food," the source said. Egyptian security sources said to Arabstoday that the former president's health was severly deteriorating, and he was constantly dippingin and out of conciousness. Mohammed Naguib, the assistant to the interior minister for prisons, earlier approved Mubarak's request to  transfer his eldest son Alaa to be with him and his younger brother Gamal in Tora Prison because of his repeated bouts of breathlesness. The source explained: "Mubarak has lost consciousness several times Monday morning in Tora hospital and has been placed on a ventilator." According to the sources, Mubarak fell into a coma. A medical team consisting of his special doctor and other doctors from the Police Academy Hospital was summoned  to check up on him.