CAIRO: Egypt’s former President Hosni Mubarak, who was ousted in February and who has been detained in a hospital in the Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh, has fallen into a coma, his lawyer said on Sunday.

"I was informed about the sudden deterioration in Mubarak’s health and I am now on my way to Sharm El-Sheikh. All that I know so far is that the president is a full coma," Mubarak’s lawyer Farid El-Deeb told Reuters.

He did not give more details.