Minute by minute: Mexican singer Vicente Fernández died

Vicente Fernández, a music icon in Mexico, died this Sunday at the age of 81, in a hospital in the western Mexican city of Guadalajara, according to a publication on his official Instagram account. According to the statement, Fernández died at 6:15 am in the morning.

The star of the station wagon had been hospitalized since August after a fall, forcing him to undergo cervical surgery. Later, his condition worsened when he was diagnosed with pneumonia, according to his account.

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