Myanmar says Aung San Suu Kyi sick, but at home

PAAN (Myanmar): Myanmar's police chief said on Saturday that the Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi had been ill and treated at home but denied reports the democracy icon had been hospitalized.

"She is at her house now. She was suffering from diarrhoea and had received treatment from her doctor," Major General Khin Yi told reporters while travelling in eastern Karen state.

"These rumours are all false," he said of reports that she had been hospitalized.

Khin Yi said Aung San Suu Kyi's personal doctor had visited her on Thursday, but he would not say whether the Nobel Peace laureate had at some point been taken to a hospital or clinic for treatment.

Earlier Lwin, a spokesman for her National League for Democracy party, also denied the reports. He said he could not explain the reports, which originated from US-based exile groups.