Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell has died following coronavirus complications, his family has said.
A statement on his Facebook page posted by his family said the 84-year-old "passed away this morning due to complications from Covid-19".
"He was fully vaccinated," they said. "We have lost a remarkable and loving husband, father, grandfather and a great American."
According to report, his spokesperson Peggy Cifrino and a family member said he was at Walter Reed National Medical Centre in Maryland at the time he died, where he had been suffering from multiple myeloma. Powell was the first African American secretary of state and the first black chairman of the joint chiefs of staff.
At the time he held the secretary of state role, from 2001-2005, it was the highest any African American had been in the federal executive branch of the US government, until Barack Obama became president.
The first African American secretary of state and chairman of the joint chiefs broke several glass ceilings but left a "blot" on his reputation with an infamous speech to the UN Security Council trying to justify the Iraq War with false information. KNews/ Sky News
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