Santiago, Nov 08: Chilean former dictator General Augusto Pinochet was taken to Santiago's Military Hospital yesterday after breaking his wrist in a fall at his seaside home in Vina Del Mar, medical sources said. Pinochet, 87, had a dizzy spell and fell in the bathroom of his coastal resort home, 110 km west of the Chilean capital, a spokesman said.

Pinochet, who suffers from diabetes and age-related ailments, was hospitalised twice previously this year. The former General had faced some 300 charges concerning the deaths and disappearances of more than 3,000 of his political opponents during his time in office.

He was declared by Chile's Supreme Court mentally unfit to stand trial on murder and kidnapping charges related to atrocities carried out under his rule. Bureau Report