Egypt’s Mubarak suffers stroke—state media

Hosni Mubarak

CAIRO—Egypt’s ousted dictator Hosni Mubarak suffered a stroke in prison on Tuesday as authorities mulled transferring him to hospital, state media reported.

Mubarak did not lose consciousness during the stroke, the official MENA news agency reported.

It had previously said that doctors treated the former president with a defibrillator earlier because his “heart stopped.”