Ex-Cuban leader Fidel Castro's son commits suicide
Havana, Feb 1 (IBNS): Eldest son of former Cuban President Fidel Castro- Fidel "Fidelito" Castro Díaz-Balart- committed suicide on Thursday, media reports said.
He was 68.
" He was found on Thursday morning and is said to have suffered from depression," BBC reported.
He was the first son of Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro who died in 2016.
As per the BBC report, Castro Díaz-Balart worked as a nuclear physicist having trained in the former Soviet Union.
Fidelito was a scientific adviser for the Cuban Council of State and served as vice president of Cuba's Academy of Science during the time of his death, reports said.
No details on his funeral has been announced so far.
His father Fidel Castro, Cuba's former president and the last of the icons in post-war Communist world, died aged 90 in 2016.
Fidel Castro ruled Cuba as a one-party state for almost 50 years before relinquishing power owing to a surgery due to intestinal bleeding.
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