Singapore dismisses Lee Kuan Yew death report as hoax

March 18, 2015 23:25

A top government spokesman dismissed as a hoax Wednesday a report that Singapore's founding father had died.

Former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew is alive, said Farah Rahim, senior director for the Singapore Ministry of Communications and Information.

The 91-year-old, who has been in a hospital with pneumonia since February 5, is in critical condition, the government has said.

A message purporting to be from the current Prime Minister circulated online Wednesday saying that Lee had died.

CNN published that news on its breaking news Twitter account before updating the account to quote Singapore's government spokesman dismissing the news as a hoax. The network has since deleted the original tweet.

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