Cheney shooting victim has heart attack

THE 78-year-old lawyer who was shot by US Vice President Dick Cheney had a minor heart attack yesterday.

Peter Banko, the hospital administrator at Christus Spohn Hospital Corpus Christi-Memorial, said Harry Whittington had some bird shot lodged in his heart and suffered the heart attack while being evaluated.

He said there was an irregularity in the heartbeat caused by a bird shot pellet and doctors performed a cardiac catheterisation.