A lawyer who was among the violent protesters who attacked the Punjab Institute of Cardiology in Lahore disguised himself as a patient and was escorted out of the hospital on a wheelchair by the police.

According to a report by Samaa News, the lawyer clashed with the police earlier outside the hospital gate. However, he was later seen leaving the hospital on a wheelchair in a blue hospital gown.

Further details on the lawyer and if any action has been initiated against him are not known as yet.

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Lawyers on Wednesday stormed the emergency ward of the PIC, vandalising public property, setting a police vehicle on fire and attacking provincial minister Fayyaz ul Hasan Chohan.

The attack resulted into deaths of four people, while several patients were forced out of the building to sit on footpaths. The mob also destroyed millions worth of health equipment inside the hospital and caused damaged to the hospital building.