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Uganda's King of Tooro, once world's youngest reigning monarch, dies at 34

FILE - Uganda's King of the Tooro Kingdom, King Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV, during his 18th birthday at Fort Portal, Uganda, Saturday, April 17, 2010.
File - Uganda's King of the Tooro Kingdom, King Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV, during his 18th birthday at Fort Portal, Uganda on April 17, 2010 as he assumed the full duties of King of the Tooros. © Marc Hofer, AP

King Oyo Nyimba, leader of the Tooro kingdom in western Uganda, has died at the age of 34, the region's prime minister of his kingdom announced Thursday. Crowned at three years old, he became the world's youngest reigning monarch in 1995.

Oyo Nyimba, a Ugandan ⁠king who became ​the world's youngest reigning monarch when he took the crown in 1995, has died aged ​34, the prime minister of his kingdom announced on Thursday evening, local time.

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