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Heart attack kills brother of Brazilian president

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Wednesday, January 19, 2005

Mr Odair de Inácio Góis, aged 52, died Tuesday night at 8:30 at the Central Hospital of São Bernardo do Campo, in the state of São Paulo, Brazil.

According to the doctors, he had a heart attack. Inácio was the paternal half-brother of the Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. The funeral will be held at Paulicéia Cemitery in São Bernado do Campo. President Lula had between 17 and 25 siblings (including half-brothers and half-sisters).

Sources

  • Irmão do presidente Lula morre de ataque cardíaco — Folha de São Paulo (AF), January 19, 2005
  • Morre mais um irmão do presidente Lula — O Estado de São Paulo (AE), January 19, 2005
  • Half brother of Brazilian president dies — The Malaysia Star, January 20, 2005


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