Royal Aide Accused of Plotting Thai Coup on Thaksin Dies at 98

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The former premier died of heart failure in a hospital in Bangkok on Sunday, according to local media. A government spokesman confirmed his death through condolences expressed by Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-Ocha. Prem served as army chief and then prime minister for nearly a decade spanning the late 1970s and 1980s.