Five-term PAS state rep in Kelantan suffers heart attack while ill in hospital

KOTA BARU: Manek Urai state as­­semblyman Ismail Yaacob (pic) died yesterday of a heart attack. He was 60.

One of the longest-serving PAS elected representatives in Kelantan, he died at 5.55am at the Raja Perem­puan Zainab II Hospital where he had been admitted since last month for diabetes, heart ailments and gout, reported Bernama.

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