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| Associated Press Oct. 24, 2013 11:57 a.m. ET BANGKOK—Thailand's Supreme Patriarch, who headed the country's order of Buddhist monks for more than two decades, died Thursday. He was 100. Doctors said that Somdet Phra Nyanasamvara died at Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital in Bangkok, where he had been treated since being admitted for an illness more than a decade ago, on Feb. 20, 2002. "His overall condition deteriorated and he passed away at 7:30 p.m. from an infection in his blood vessels," the doctors said. MORE> |
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