Overnight, state media reported that the 84-year old former president, ousted in last year&rsquo;s uprising and now serving a life sentence in prison, suffered a stroke and was put on life support. <img alt="" src="/imagedata/2012/jun/hosni.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 359px; " /> Prayers for Hosni: Supporters of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stand outside the military hospital where the ousted leader is critical but off life-support. Pic/AFP He was transferred to a military hospital from the Cairo prison hospital where he has been kept since his June 2 conviction and sentencing for failing to stop the killing of protesters during the uprising. His wife Suzanne was by his side in the Nile-side hospital in Maadi. The security officials said a team of 15 doctors, including heart, blood and brain specialists, was supervising the condition of Mubarak, who needed help with his breathing. <img alt="" src="/imagedata/2012/jun/Mubarak.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 417px; " /> Tensions rise Mubarak&rsquo;s health scare comes at a time of heightened tension in Egypt. Both candidates in a fiercely contested presidential runoff held last weekend are claiming victory. At the same time, the ruling military council that took over from Mubarak moved to tighten its grip on power a little more than a week before they were supposed to transfer complete authority to an elected civilian administration.u00a0

Hosni Mubarak was in a coma on Wednesday but off life support and his heart and other vital organs were functioning, according to security officials.

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