Status: October 18, 2021 3:10 p.m.
According to his families, ex-US Secretary of State Colin Powell died of complications from Covid 19 despite being vaccinated. He had previously been chief of staff. Powell was 84 years old.
The former US Secretary of State Colin Powell is dead. The retired general died at the age of 84 as a result of a corona infection, as his family announced on the online network Facebook.
He had therefore been vaccinated against the virus. “We have lost a remarkable and loving husband, father, grandfather and a great American,” the family declared.
Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell has died
Ulrich Adrian, WDR, daily news 3 p.m., October 18, 2021
From 2001 to 2005, under President George W. Bush, the Republican was the first African American in history to serve as Secretary of State for the United States. Powell is known, among other things, for a controversial appearance before the United Nations in 2003, where he presented alleged evidence of weapons of mass destruction, which Baghdad did not even have, to justify a US invasion of Iraq.
Prior to his time as Secretary of State, Powell was – also the first African American – US Chief of Staff. In the presidential election last November, the Republican stood behind Democratic candidate Joe Biden and against Republican incumbent Donald Trump.