CAIRO, February 25. /TASS/. Former President of Egypt Hosni Mubarak has died on Tuesday in Cairo aged 91, the state television reports.

In the past month, he was undergoing treatment in an ICU unit at one of Cairo’s clinics after a gastrointestinal tract surgery.

In the last nine years since Mubarak’s ousting, there have been at least 16 reports of his death that resulted false. His death was reported an additional three times during his tenure as president. Due to this, reporters were wary of any reports regarding the politician’s death, awaiting an official confirmation. On Tuesday, Mubarak’s family and attorney Farid al-Dib confirmed that the former Egyptian leader had died in hospital.

According to al-Dib, Mubarak died from complications after a surgery he underwent in early February. "In the past 24 hours, complications have begun," the Masrawy news portal quotes the attorney as saying. "He was put on an artificial respiration machine. All the family was summoned to the hospital, and today at dawn, Hosni Mubarak has died."

The former leader is entitled to a military funeral as a former career officer in the Egyptian Air Force. Mubarak’s relatives have a family tomb at a cemetery in Heliopolis, a suburb in Cairo.

Hosni Mubarak served as Egypt’s president in 1981-2011. He was ousted following mass protests in Cairo and other Egyptian cities in 2011 and was ordered to stand trial on several charges, including premeditated murder of peaceful protesters during the revolution. In 2017, Egypt’s top court acquitted Mubarak of conspiring in the killing of protesters. In recent year, Mubarak lived a secluded life with his family, refusing any contact with the media.