Hyderabad, July 5 (PTI) A 62-year-old Sudanese woman cancer patient, who underwent treatment here for seven months, collapsed and died at the airport on Sunday shortly before she was to board a repatriation flight to her country, police said.

The woman was brought to the airport in a wheel-chair accompanied by some relatives to board a flight to Sudan but suddenly collapsed near the boarding gate.

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She was immediately rushed to a nearby hospital where doctors declared her brought dead, police said.

The woman had been undergoing treatment for cancer at a hospital in the city for the past seven months, a police official said.

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