Indonesia's former President Suharto dead: Police

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Posted online: Sunday , January 27, 2008 at 11:28:55
Updated: Sunday , January 27, 2008 at 11:45:30

Jakarta, January 27: Indonesia's former President Suharto, who ruled with an iron fist for 32 years, has died, a senior police official said on Sunday at the hospital where he was being treated.

"Indonesia's second President Haji Muhammad Suharto has passed away at about 13.10," Major Dicky Sondani, the police chief for the district where the hospital is located, said.

Reporters saw relatives of the family crying and said that members of Indonesia's special forces arrived at the hospital.

A press conference is due to be held shortly.

Suharto was 86 years old, and had been in critical condition in a Jakarta hospital since Jan. 4 suffering from heart, lung and kidney problems. His doctors said he suffered from multiple organ failure and went into a coma on Sunday.

Suharto, accused by critics of amassing a multi-billion-dollar fortune during his rule of the world's most populous Muslim nation, had suffered from bouts of ill health since being swept from power in 1998 amid mass riots.

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