Supporters of Tamil Nadu state leader Jayalalithaa Jayaram cry in front of a hospital

Supporters of Tamil Nadu state leader Jayalalithaa Jayaram cry in front of a hospital where she was being treated in Chennai on December 5, 2016. The ailing chief minister of southern India’s Tamil Nadu state, Jayalalithaa Jayaram, has suffered a cardiac arrest only days after she handed many of her responsibilities to a deputy because of illness.

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