Egypt: Hosni Mubarak 'clinically dead,' Egypt's news agency says

Hosni Mubarak

Egypt's ousted leader Hosni Mubarak has been put on life support after his heart stopped as he arrived at a military hospital, a security official says.

The state news agency MENA said the 84-year-old Mubarak was "clinically dead" when he arrived at the hospital from prison. It said doctors used a defibrillator on him several times.

Spokesman Alaa Mahmoud said the 84-year-old Mubarak was moved by ambulance from the hospital in Torah Prison to nearby Maadi Hospital in southern Cairo. The military facility is where Mubarak's predecessor, Anwar Sadat, was declared dead after being shot by Islamic extremists in 1981.

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