10-year-old boy wakes from coma two weeks after helicopter collisionAP ReportersA 10-year-old Australian boy who was critically injured when two helicopters collided, killing four people, has woken from a coma in hospital and held his father’s hand, a family priest said. Nicholas Tadros remains in the Queensland Children’s Hospital in Brisbane where medical staff described his condition as “critical but stable”. Nicholas remains on a ventilator to support his breathing and is scheduled for more surgeries, the priest said. Along with Nicholas’s mother, British couple Ron and Diane Hughes and pilot Ashley Jenkinson were also killed in the collision, which is being investigated by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau. The other victims who remain in hospital are a 33-year-old mother and her nine-year-old son.

Source: Irish Independent January 17, 2023 02:18 UTC