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RARE PHOTOS: Inquest to examine manus island sudanese refugee death - The Real Truth

Faysal Ishak Ahmed suffered head injuries inside the Manus Island detention centre in 2016. (Darren England/AAP PHOTOS)

When Faysal Ishak Ahmed collapsed on stairs at the Manus Island detention centre in Papua New Guinea, his jaw locked due to a seizure and he died by the time he was airlifted to Brisbane.

A Brisbane inquest into the Sudanese refugee's death in 2016 has heard his medical transfer to Australia became a bureaucratic exercise and a neurosurgeon was not contacted for at least five hours after his fall.

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