Egypt's state TV reported Monday that the country's ousted President Mohammed Morsi has collapsed during a court session and died.
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The state TV said the 67-year-old Morsi was attending a session Monday in his trial on espionage charges when he blacked out and then died. His body was taken to a hospital, it said.
Morsi, who hailed from Egypt's largest Islamist group, the now outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, was elected president in 2012 in what some considered the country's first free elections following the ouster the year before of longtime leader Hosni Mubarak as part of the Arab Spring uprising in the region.
The military ousted Morsi in 2013 after massive protests and crushed the Brotherhood in a major crackdown, arresting Morsi and many others of the group's leaders.
