Incoming Taiwan interior minister dies

TAIPEI, Taiwan - An incoming Cabinet minister in the government of Taiwanese President-elect Ma Ying-jeou died Saturday after collapsing during a hiking trip in a Taipei suburb, a hospital said.

Spokesman Hsu Chun-sen of Wan Fang Hospital said incoming Interior Minister Liao Feng-te, 57, was pronounced dead more than four hours after arriving at the hospital without a heart beat.

Hsu Chun-sen said the hospital carried out resuscitation attempts on Liao to no avail.

Liao was a longtime lawmaker and key official in Ma's Nationalist party.

Ma will take office on May 20.

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