Malawi president critical after heart attack

LILONGWE (Reuters) - Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika was "very critical" on Thursday after a heart attack and was being flown to South Africa for treatment, a minister said, raising fears of a political crisis in the impoverished southern African nation. A Reuters reporter in Lilongwe witnessed chaotic scenes as the 78-year-old leader's wife, Calista, and senior cabinet ministers left the capital's Kamuzu Central Hospital, where Mutharika was admitted on Thursday morning after collapsing. "There was panic," one hospital staffer told Reuters. ...