Revealed: Pope Francis’s cause of death

The Vatican has revealed Pope Francis’s cause of death.

The Pope died of a cerebral stroke and cardiac arrest.

His Holiness fell into a coma after suffering a stroke that caused a heart attack.

The Vatican said Pope Francis, who spent several weeks in hospital earlier this year battling double pneumonia, was affected by a “previous episode of acute respiratory failure in bilateral multimicrobial pneumonia, multiple bronchiectasis, arterial hypertension and type II diabetes.”

The Pontiff died in the morning of 21 April, Easter Monday, at the age of 88.

He had been pope for 12 years and was the first pontiff from Latin America.