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Libyan-born Lockerbie bomber Abdul Baset al Megrahi who is suffering from a terminal prostate cancer may not have more days to live, a source close to his family told Sky News Thursday.

His relatives said he has been in a coma and on life support for around a week that his death is imminent and every day is “expected to be his last.”

“He is on life support and has been for some days. Many people have been waiting for him to die. That day is coming very soon. Every day, his loved ones expect it to be his last,” a source close to his family said.

Al Megrahi, who was convicted of killing 270 people by bombing a Pan Am jet in 1988, was released on compassionate grounds from Britain’s Greenock Prison by the Scottish government in August 2009, because medical reports on him said he would not live beyond three months after his release. But he has lived 13 months.

Al Megrahi has always protested that he is innocent of the December 1988 bombing that brought down a plane flying from London's Heathrow Airport to New York.