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Pope Francis died of cerebral stroke and heart failure: Vatican doctor

A man holds a copy of a special edition of the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano announcing the death of Pope Francis in St Peter's Square in the Vatican [Andreas Solaro/AFP]

Pope Francis died of a cerebral stroke and irreversible heart failure, Vatican doctor Andrea Arcangeli says in a death certificate.

The certificate released on Monday for the 88-year-old pontiff said the pope had fallen into a coma before his death on Monday morning.

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