Shafaq News/ An inmate on death row in the Nasiriyah Central Prison, aka al-Hout (The Whale), reportedly died from a severe cardiovascular illness earlier today, Sunday.

A security source told Shafaq News Agency that the 45 years old inmate from Baghdad sentenced to death pursuant to Article 4/Terrorism succumbed to the complications of hypertension.

The body, according to the source, was transferred to the Forensic Medicine Department to continue the legal proceedings.

Tuberculosis has been a frequent cause of death among death row inmates in the Nasiriyah Central Prison recently.