Amrish Puri, an Indian actor, died of a brain haemorrhage in 2005 at the age of 72.
Puri had myelodysplastic syndrome, a rare kind of blood cancer, and had had brain surgery for it after being hospitalised to the Hinduja hospital on December 27, 2004. His illness necessitated repeated drainage of blood deposited in the cerebral part of the brain, and he eventually lapsed into a coma soon before his death on January 12, 2005, about 7:30 a.m. His body was transported to his home for visitors to pay their respects, and his funeral was held on January 13, 2005, in the Shivaji Park cremation.
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