• The deputy leader of Taiwan’s government-controlled weapons developer died of a heart attack.
• Ou Yang Li-hsing was discovered dead in a hotel room in southern Pingtung County.
• His family said that he had a history of heart problems and was fitted with a cardiac stent.

The deputy leader of Taiwan’s government-controlled weapons developer Ou Yang Li-hsing died of a heart attack while on a trip to the island’s south.

The deputy chairman of the military-owned National Chung Shan Institution of Science and Technology, Ou Yang Li-hsing, was discovered dead in a hotel room in southern Pingtung County on Saturday morning, according to the institute.

When police came, they discovered he had had a heart attack, according to Wang Chin-tsung, a precinct deputy director with the Pingtung County Police Department.

There was no evidence of wrongdoing, he noted.

“After checking the surveillance video footage and surveying the hotel room, police found the windows to be closed and did not see any signs of a break-in or fighting, nor did we find any wounds on Ou Yang’s body,”  Wang said.

Ou Yang’s family said that he had a history of heart problems and was fitted with a cardiac stent.

Ou Yang, who supervised the development of numerous missile kinds, joined the institution earlier this year.

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