Tunisia’s Health Minister died of a heart attack on Sunday after taking part in a charity marathon to help battle cancer, officials said.<\/p>\n
Slim Chaker, 56, fell ill after running some 500 metres (yards), and then making a speech at the start of a race in the coastal town of Nabeul aimed at raising funds to build a clinic for children with cancer, his ministry said.<\/p>\n
He died later at a military hospital in Tunis.<\/p>\n
“I have lost a brother and a colleague,” Prime Minister Youssef Chahed wrote on Facebook.<\/p>\n
“He died doing a noble humanitarian act.”<\/p>\n
Local media and internet users in the North African country reacted with sorrow to the passing of Chaker, a former adviser to President Beji Caid Essebsi who only took over the health brief last month.<\/p>\n
“He has paid in blood for his patriotic work,” Tunisian magazine Leader wrote on Twitter.
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