Buenos Aires - Argentines flocked to the national Congress building in Buenos Aires early Wednesday to pay their respects to former president Raul Alfonsin, who died late Tuesday of lung cancer at age 82.

Buenos Aires  - Former Argentina president Raul Alfonsin, who led his country out of an era of dictatorship, died late Tuesday, his personal doctor confirmed. He was 82.

Alfonsin died peacefully, his doctor Alberto Sadler said.

Earlier in the day, his son son Ricardo Alfonsin said his condition was rapidly deteriorating following a bout of pneumonia, but that he was still lucid. Alfonsin was suffering from lung cancer.

He was diagnosed with pneumonia on Sunday and was being treated at his home in the Barrio Norte neighbourhood of Buenos Aires.

Buenos Aires  - Former Argentina president Raul Alfonsin, who led his country out of an era of dictatorship, was said to be in a rapidly deteriorating condition on Tuesday following a bout of pneumonia.

Alfonsin, 82, suffers from lung cancer, but his son Ricardo Alfonsin said that he was still lucid.

He was diagnosed with pneumonia on Sunday and was being treated at his home in the Barrio Norte neighbourhood of Buenos Aires.