Sergio Alfieri, the head of the pontiff’s medical team says Pope Francis died quickly on Monday morning from an unexpected stroke without suffering undue pain and there was nothing that doctors could have done to save his life.
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00:00Sergio Alfieri, the head of the Pontiff's medical team, says Pope Francis died quickly on Monday morning from an unexpected stroke without suffering and due pain, and there was nothing that doctors could have done to save his life.
00:13Alfieri said he got a call from around 5.30am on Monday and arrived at the Vatican about 20 minutes later.
00:21He says, quote,
00:30Alferi oversaw the Pope's treatment during a five-week stay in the hospital when he was fighting double pneumonia earlier this year.
00:43Meantime, crowds of people lined up at St. Peter's through the night and early Friday, April 25, to bid farewell to Pope Francis before his funeral on Saturday, April 26.
00:53The Vatican says since the Pope died, almost 130,000 people from all over the world have said goodbye to the Pontiff.