Mon Jul 11, 2011 5:42PM
Latest reports coming from Egypt suggest former ousted dictator Hosni Mubarak has suffered a heart failure and is in a serious condition.
Medics said on Monday that they restarted Mubarak's heart using electric shocks.
Some media reports say Mubarak is in critical condition and is unable to breathe normally.
"Mubarak had suffered heart failure, which later caused him not to be able to breathe normally," Egypt's al-Ahram Newspaper quoted a veteran journalist as saying.
But the reports have not been officially confirmed.
Mubarak's health has been fluctuating since he was toppled amid a nationwide uprising against his decades-long rule earlier this year.
There have been conflicting reports on Mubarak's state of health and the reasons for his hospitalization.
He has been under arrest at a hospital in the resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh.
Mubarak is being held for an investigation into the crackdown on protesters during 18 days of anti-regime rallies that toppled him on February 11th.
The commission investigating the violence against the protesters says more than 800 demonstrators were killed.
Mubarak also stands accused of corruption.
The Mubarak family is facing allegations of corruption as well as the use of violence against protesters.
Egypt's judicial officials say the former dictator could be executed if found guilty of ordering to shoot anti-government protesters.
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