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Peru's former president Alan Garcia has died after shooting himself in the head as police arrived at his home to arrest him as part of a bribery scandal.
Garcia was rushed to hospital where he underwent emergency surgery and suffered three cardiac arrests, Health Minister Zulema Tomas said this evening.
Tomas had said that the 69-year-old was in a "very critical" condition.
Following the news of Garcia's death, Peru president Martin Vizcarra tweeted: "Dismayed by the demise of former president Alan Garcia. I send my condolences to your family and loved ones."
A doctor who earlier spoke to journalists alongside Tomas at the hospital said the bullet entered and left Garcia's head.
It is believed the father of six was resuscitated three times at hospital and then put in a coma.