Former president of Haiti Jean-Claude Duvalier has died.

The dictator who ruled the Caribbean nation with brutal force from 1971 and who fled the country in 1986 in the face of violent unrest, shocked the world when he returned to the country after 25 years apologising for his bloody regime.

Duvalier, known as Baby Doc, had inherited the presidency on the death of his father, the dictator known as Papa Doc.

He died from a heart attack aged 63.