Slobodan Milosevic’s body was being released to his family today after an eight-hour autopsy revealed that the former Yugoslav president died of a heart attack in his prison cell.

Slobodan Milosevic died of a heart attack in his jail cell, according to preliminary post mortem findings tonight.

Dutch pathologists conducted a post mortem examination and toxicological tests today to determine what killed Slobodan Milosevic amid claims that the ex-Yugoslav leader feared he was being poisoned.

Slobodan Milosevic’s family clashed today over where the former Yugoslav president should be buried, with proposals ranging from Serbia or Montenegro to Russia.

The death of former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic does not absolve Serbia of responsibility to hand over war crimes suspects from the Balkan wars of the 1990s, the European Union said today.

The wife of Slobodan Milosevic has described the former Yugoslav president’s performance before the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague as a battle between good and evil.

Police are seeking attempted murder charges against Slobodan Milosevic’s daughter who fired her gun during the former Yugoslav president’s arrest.

Slobodan Milosevic's daughter is understood to have fired "four or five" shot inside the villa she was holed up with her father just before his arrest.