Pinochet suffers heart attack
Ap, Santiago
Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet has suffered a life-threatening heart attack while under house arrest and was rushed to hospital early yesterday, doctors said. He was listed at Santiago Military Hospital in "stable condition," according an official statement released by the hospital. But one of his doctors, Juan Ignacio Vergara said the retired general's life was "in danger." "His fate is in the hands of God and his doctors," added Pinochet's youngest son, Marco Antonio Pinochet Hiriart. Following his arrival shortly after 2:00 am (0600 GMT) on Sunday, Pinochet underwent angioplasty -- a procedure desiged to widen a narrowed or totally obstructed blood vessel -- to stabilize his condition, the hospital said, but offerted no further details. Pinochet, who ruled Chile for 17 years after seizing power in a 1973 military coup, turned 91 on November 25.
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