CNN —A star player for Malaysia’s soccer team is in “critical but stable condition” after an acid attack that left him with fourth-degree burns, officials said late Tuesday.
Malaysian soccer officials said Faisal Halim’s movement and speech had been affected and he would require more surgery.
Halim, who plays as an attacker for Selangor Football Club as well as Malaysia’s national team, was taken to a nearby private hospital in the capital, while still conscious.
He had suffered severe burns to his face, neck, shoulders, hands and chest, officials add.
Specialist doctors on Tuesday concluded that Halim had suffered fourth-degree burns, not second-degree burns as previously thought, said officials from the Football Association of Selangor.
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