Bad heart medicine kills 69 in Pakistan

The number of people suspected to have died from taking bad heart medicine in eastern Pakistan has risen to 69.

A total of 419 heart patients have become sick from taking the drugs, and 45 of them remain in critical condition, an investigation has found.

Many of the patients are in the city of Lahore.

The suspected drugs were given free to patients by the state-run Punjab Institute of Cardiology.

The Pakistani government has registered a case against the company accused of manufacturing the faulty medicine.