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S.Korea Ex-President Roh dead -Yonhap |
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作者:Chinadai… 新闻来源:Chinadaily 点击数: 更新时间:2009-5-23 | |||||
SEOUL -- South Korea's former President Roh Moo-hyun died on Saturday after he fell while mountain hiking, Yonhap news agency reported.
Roh Moo-hyun died after falling from a mountainside behind his residence in Bongha Village, southern South Korea, early Saturday morning, his lawyer Moon Jae-in announced in a news conference, saying Roh left behind a "brief" suicide note to his family.
Pusan National University Hospital in a nearby town also announced that Roh was rushed to its emergency room at 8:13 a.m. and died at 9:30 a.m. from external head injury.
South Korea's President Lee Myung-bak expressed deep regret over the sudden death of his predecessor Roh Moo-hyun on Saturday, calling it a national tragedy, his spokesman said.
Lee Dong-kwan, a spokesman for the presidential office Cheong Wa Dae, said the president and his office were in "complete shock" and "disbelief."
The president learned of Roh's death about 40 minutes after Roh reportedly jumped from a mountainside near his home at around 6:40 a.m., the spokesman said.
"President Lee was shocked by the report," he said, "and ordered swift and complete measures to deal with the situation."
Roh was summoned in April as a suspect in a multi-million dollar graft probe but prosecutors have not yet decided whether to arrest him. The case has sparked a media frenzy along with sharp criticism of Roh, who won office partly on an anti-corruption platform and served from 2003 to 2008. He has publicly apologised for his family's involvement in the case but denied personal involvement. Five former presidents including Roh have been tarnished by scandals involving either themselves or their families. Apart from Roh, Chun Doo-Hwan and Roh Tae-Woo personally faced a criminal probe.
Chun and Roh Tae-Woo were convicted in 1995 of receiving bribes and inciting mutiny. Both were sentenced to death but pardoned in 1997.
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