AN Egyptian labourer had a heart attack and died Saturday from the excitement of laying his hands on a windfall of money he had been awaiting for around a decade, police in southern Egypt said. Ramadan Abu Seif, 45, had just picked up a cheque for 9_000 Egyptian pounds (around $2_400 dollars) in compensation from a United Nations fund for having to leave Kuwait, where he worked, after Iraq invaded in 1990. He was sitting in his car in the town of Asiut, around 390km south of Cairo, outside the office where he had been given the money, when he was struck down in his excitement, police said. The United Nations Compensation Commission, part funded by revenue from exports of Iraqi oil, has so far handed out around $9.4bn to victims of the 1990-91 Gulf crisis. – AFP