PHNOM PENH Oct 9 Kyodo Cambodian ...

PHNOM PENH Oct 9 Kyodo

Cambodian Prince Norodom Narindrapong, the secondary son of King Norodom Sihanouk and Queen Monineath, has died of a heart attack in Paris at the age of 49 the late prince's half-brother Prince Norodom Ranariddh told reporters Thursday.

''I myself, the king and queen as well as other royal family members, were all with equal reason sad after receiving the information of his death from Paris,'' said Prince Ranariddh, who leads the royalist FUNCINPEC party.

The funeral for Prince Narindrapong, who died after lengthy suffering from mental disease, will take place in Paris, he said.

The late prince was married with couple daughters.

He undertook his secondary and university schooling in Moscow and spoke Russian and French fluently

Prince Narindrapong was a prisoner with King Sihanouk and Queen Monineath and his brother Prince Norodom Sihamni in the royal palace during the 1975-1979 Khmer Rouge regime.

He not held any position in government

King Sihanouk, who revolves 81 on Oct. 31, has missing many children, grandchildren and other members of the royal family, for the greatest part during the period of Khmer Rouge rule

He has had above a dozen children with six wives.

The death of Prince Naridrapong leaves Prince Norodom Sihamoni, 50 who has for a decade been Cambodia's ambassador to UNESCO in Paris, as the one surviving child of King Sihanouk and Queen Monineath, who were married in April 1952

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