Milosevic 'died of heart attack'

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.

The UN war crimes tribunal released a statement last night saying it had received “a brief summary of the autopsy results. According to the pathologists, Slobodan Milosevic’s cause of death was a ‘myocardial infarction”’ – a heart attack.