Egypt’s former president Hosni Mubarak, whose trial on charges of ordering the killing of anti-regime protesters is due in August, has stomach cancer, his lawyer Farid al-Dib said on Monday.
“He has a stomach cancer and the tumours are growing,” the lawyer said.
The former president is currently being held in custody at a hospital in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh where he has been since suffering heart problems during questioning on April 13.
Mubarak, who turned 83 in May, and his sons are to face trial on August 3 on charges of ordering the killing of protesters during the uprising in January and February that toppled the veteran leader.
The Mubaraks, along with a host of former ministers, are also facing trial for graft.
In March 2010 the ex-president underwent surgery in Germany to remove his gall bladder and a growth on his small intestine. — AFP