Comoros president dies from heart attack

KAMAL EDDINE SAINDOU Associated Press Writer
AP Online
11-06-1998
MORONI, Comoros (AP) _ Comoros President Mohamed Taki Abdulkarim has died at age 62, the nation's religious leader announced Friday.

Abdulkarim, president of the three-island chain in the Indian Ocean, died during the night, Saed Mohamed Toihir told state radio.

He gave no further details, but French radio reported the president had suffered a heart attack.

Abdulkarim will be succeeded by Tadjidine Ben Said Massonde, the president of the Comoros High Council, who will serve on an interim basis until elections that are expected to be held in three months' time.

Abdulkarim was the fourth president of the Comoros islands, in the Indian Ocean north of Madagascar, since the nation's independence from France in 1975. …

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