Burundi's outgoing President Pierre Nkurunziza has died, the government of the central African nation announced in a statement posted on Twitter, Reuters reports.
The government statement said that Nkurunziza had died of a heart attack.
Burundi president Pierre Nkurunziza dies
FE Team | Published: June 09, 2020 21:15:04 | Updated: June 22, 2020 17:42:55
File Photo: Burundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza talks to the media after casting his ballot at a voting station during the presidential, legislative and communal council elections, under the simmering political violence and the growing threat of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Ngozi, Burundi May 20, 2020. Reuters
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