The Home Office warned that under the law anyone who killed a terminally ill person could face life in jail.

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But given the difficulties that its weak, poor, ill-governed members face already, it is hard to see others queuing up to join.

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Even as they work to stabilize the critically ill patients, doctors face another worry: the possibility of injuries emerging that weren't detected immediately after the explosions.

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