A senior Taiwanese defence official responsible for missile production was found dead on Saturday morning in a hotel room amid rising tensions with China.
Ou Yang Li-hsing, deputy head of the military-owned National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology, died in a hotel room in southern Taiwan, the official Central News Agency reported.
Authorities said Ou Yang, 57, died of a heart attack and the hotel room showed no sign of any "intrusion".