Former President Pranab
Mukherjee died on Monday in an army hospital in New Delhi, his son Abhijit
said. He was 84.
Mukherjee was admitted
to hospital on August 10 and a health bulletin on Monday morning said he was in
a deep coma and on ventilator support.
"With a heavy heart, this is to inform you that my
father Shri Pranab Mukherjee has just passed away in spite of the best efforts
of Doctors of RR Hospital and prayers duas and prarthanas from people
throughout India! I thank all of You Folded hands," his son Abhijit
Mukherjee tweeted.
The former president was
admitted to the hospital in Delhi Cantonment on August 10 and was operated the
same day for removal of a clot in his brain.
He later developed a lung infection.
Mukherjee was the 13th
president of India from 2012 to 2017.
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