Ex-president Abdul Kalam passes away

Former president APJ Abdul Kalam passed away after collapsing during a lecture at IIM Shillong today.

Doctors of the Bethany Hospital put him on oxygen and tried to revive him. He was reportedly in a critical condition.

"He is in the intensive care unit. We are examining him. We suspect that it could be cardiac arrest," John Sailo Ryntathiang, Director of Bethany Hospital, told IAN.

Kalam was the President of India from 2002-2007 and was there at IIM to attend a course on Liveable Planet Earth. Meghalaya Governor V Shanmughanathan and the Chief Secretary P B O Warjri visited the hospital.

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