Francisco Guterres, a former president of East Timor and a leading figure in the country's independence movement, has died at age 71.
Guterres, widely known by his nom de guerre "Lu Olo", died on Sunday at Prince Court Medical Centre in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where he had been in intensive care, his family said on the late president's official Facebook account.
The cause of death was not immediately disclosed.
