Veteran Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy
was taken to hospital Saturday amid symptoms of a possible stroke, according to
the television news network CNN and US media reports.
CNN quoted sources as saying that the Massachusetts senator, 76, had shown
"stroke-like symptoms."
The New York Times in a news flash spoke of Kennedy having been taken to
hospital for a "serious - but unknown - illness."
According to a report by the Cape Cod Times, Kennedy was rushed by ambulance from
the family compound in Hyannisport, Massachusetts, to Cape Cod Hospital after falling ill.
That report also said that after two hours in the emergency room there, a
decision was made to transfer Kennedy to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
Kennedy is the last surviving brother of President John F Kennedy, who was
assassinated in November 1963. Another older brother, Robert Kennedy, was
assassinated in June 1968 while seeking the Democratic Party presidential
nomination.
The Massachusetts Senator, long an icon of the liberal wing of the Democratic
Party, most recently made the headlines in late January when he publicly
endorsed Barack Obama's bid for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination.
Kennedy has served as senator from Massachusetts since 1962, dpa reported.
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