Shafaq News/ An inmate on death row in al-Hillah Central Prison reportedly died from a severe respiratory illness earlier today, Monday.

A security source told Shafaq News Agency that the Mosul-born inmate who has been sentenced to death pursuant to Article 4/Terrorism succumbed to the complications of Tuberculosis.

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 Iraqi prisons.