Five die of heart attack during Russian polls
March 5th, 2012 - 10:20 am ICT by IANSMoscow, March 5 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Five people died of heart attacks at separate polling stations during the presidential elections in Russia Sunday, police said.
One man — a 65-year-old member of a local election commission in Zelenograd in northern Moscow — went for a cigarette break a few minutes before polling was supposed to open, when he suffered a massive heart attack and died.
A 53-year-old man, who had been discharged from hospital two days ago, died from a heart attack after getting his ballot paper at a polling station in Omsk, West Siberia.
A 77-year-old pensioner died near a polling station in Moscow, a 59-year old former school principal died in Domna village as she arrived at a polling station, while a 72-year-old woman died five metres away from her polling station in Volgograd.
Russians voted Sunday to elect a president for the fifth time in the nation’s post-Soviet history. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is facing four opponents.
–IANS/RIA Novosti
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