THE HAGUE, Aug 13- Dutch Prince Friso (photo), who had been in a coma after being buried by an avalanche last year, died on Monday, Xinhua news agency reported the Netherlands Government Information Service RVD as saying.
The RVD said that the prince died from “complications that occurred as a result of brain damage caused by oxygen deficiency in his skiing accident on Feb 17, 2012 in Lech, Austria.
Forty-four-year-old Prince Friso is the younger brother of King Willem-Alexander.
He was buried in an avalanche when skiing off-piste in the Austrian Alps in February, 2012.
He was transferred last month from a London hospital to receive treatment at his mother’s residence in The Hague.
-BERNAMA
