Cardiac arrest victim student was a footballer

INDIAN EXPAT, 17, HAD NO KNOWN UNDERLYING MEDICAL CONDITIONS

- BY SAJILA SASEENDRAN

A 17-year-old Indian expat student in the UAE who died of cardiac arrest in Sharjah on Thursday was a physically active football player and talented artist with no known underlying medical conditions, her devastated family has revealed.

Aisha Mariam collapsed in the washroom of her Sharjah home just hours after spending a joyful night singing and dancing with her cousins, her relatives told Gulf News on Saturday. Her tragic death came just weeks after she turned 17 on December 9.

The eldest of three siblings, Aisha is survived by her parents, an 11-year-old brother and a two-year-old sister. There was no family history of heart disease, relatives said.