Arson victim brought out of induced sleep

Doctors from the Ostrava Teaching Hospital have ended the induced sleep of a two-year-old Romany girl, who was severely burned in an arson attack in April, hospital director Svatopluk Němeček told the Czech news agency, ČTK, on Friday. According to the hospital head, her condition has seen improvement but remains serious. The little girl had been in induced sleep for three months, during which she underwent a series of operations. In the attack in April she had suffered burns to 80 percent to her body. Social worker Kumar Vishwanathan has said the little girl had begun eating properly and said she had made an effort to touch a favourite toy. Police are continuing to search for the perpetrators.