General Augusto Pinochet suffered an acute, life-threatening heart attack today and doctors performed an emergency procedure that “virtually rescued him from death,” the former dictator’s son said.

Former dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet was hospitalised today after suffering a heart attack and is in a serious but stable condition, the Santiago Military Hospital said.

The older daughter of former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet was detained today on arrival in Washington after failing to obey a summons by a Chilean judge who indicted her on tax evasion charges, the government reported.