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Egypt's ousted president Mohammed Morsi collapses in court, dies

Morsi was a longtime senior figure in Egypt's most powerful Islamist group, the Muslim Brotherhood

File photo of Mohammed Morsi. Courtesy: Wikimedia Commons
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File photo of Mohammed Morsi. Courtesy: Wikimedia Commons

APPTI Cairo
Egypt’s former president, Mohammed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood leader who rose to office in the country’s first free elections in 2012 and was ousted a year later by the military, collapsed in court during a trial and died Monday, state TV and his family said.

The 67-year-old Morsi had just addressed the court, speaking from the glass cage he is kept in during sessions and warning that he had “many secrets” he could reveal, a judicial official said.

A few minutes afterward, he collapsed, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to talk to