June 27, 2002	Thursday	Rabi-us-Sani 15, 1423

ROME, June 26: Homaira Shah, the wife of Mohammad Zahir Shah, former king of Afghanistan, died in Rome on Wednesday, a hospital official said.

“Her heart stopped earlier today,” an official of the Ars Medica clinic in Rome said.

“She came out of intensive care last night after a heavy fever passed, but earlier today she died,” Homaira Wali, granddaughter of the former queen, told Italy’s ANSA news agency.

Homaira Shah, 84, had lived in Rome since 1973, when her husband was deposed in a bloodless coup while the couple were visiting Italy.—Reuters