Conflicting reports on former Egyptian leader Mubarak's health - 13 WTHR Indianapolis

Hosni Mubarak, the man who ruled Egypt for 30 years until he was overthrown last year, is on life support at a hospital after suffering a number of strokes and heart attacks.

There are conflicting reports about Mubarak's condition.

Military officials who are still ruling the country say Mubarak was not clinically dead.  His lawyer agrees saying Mubarak is still alive.

Earlier today news agencies reported that Mubarak was clinically dead.

Mubarak is 84 years old and his health plummeted after he was overthrown and put under arrest.

An Interior Ministry spokesman says Egypt's ousted leader had been moved from prison to a military hospital after reports he he suffered a stroke and his condition rapidly worsened.

The spokesman Alaa Mahmoud says the 84-year-old Mubarak was moved by ambulance from the hospital in Torah Prison to nearby Maadi Hospital in southern Cairo. The military facility is where Mubarak's predecessor Anwar Sadat was declared dead after being shot by Islamic extremists in 1981.

Earlier, the state news agency said Mubarak's health condition rapidly deteriorated, with his heart stopping briefly, then suffering a stroke.

Mubarak was sentenced to life in prison on June 2 for failing to stop the killing of protesters in last year's uprising that led to his ouster.

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