Former Egyptian vice president (Omar Suleiman) dies in U.S. hospital, officials say

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Cairo (CNN) -- Omar Suleiman, the Egyptian vice president under Hosni Mubarak who announced the president's resignation to the world, has died in a U.S. hospital, officials said Thursday. He was 76.

State-run Nile TV and the state news agency MENA reported that Suleiman died in an American hospital.

Family members say he had "water on the lungs and heart issues." But an Egyptian official who asked to remain unnamed because he wasn't authorized to talk with the media said the former spy chief had cancer and had traveled to Germany for medical reasons before for heading to Cleveland, Ohio.

Suleiman died early Thursday morning with his family at his side at the Cleveland Clinic.

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