Ynet – Former President of Egypt Hosni Mubarak, who was ousted in February and who has been detained in a hospital in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, has suffered a stroke and fallen into a coma, his lawyer said on Sunday.

“I was informed about the sudden deterioration in Mubarak’s health and I am now on my way to Sharm el-Sheikh. All that I know so far is that the president is a full coma,” Mubarak’s lawyer Farid el-Deeb said in a statement.

But Egypt state television, citing the head of the hospital, denied the reports.

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