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FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) - Sam Hinga Norman, a former government minister on trial for allegedly overseeing a militia accused of torturing and mutilating civilians during Sierra Leone's decade-long civil war, died Thursday at a Senegalese hospital, a court statement said.
Norman, 67, Sierra Leone's former internal affairs minister, had been awaiting a verdict on eight charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity allegedly performed by fighters he oversaw during the 1991-2002 war.
The court statement said Norman, who had been flown to Senegal's capital, Dakar, on Jan. 17 for medical procedures, died of apparent heart failure.
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