Mombasa based billionaire, Twahir Sheikh Said, popularly known as TSS, died on Tuesday morning while undergoing treatment at Milpark Hospital in Johannesburg.

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“We received the news of his passing this morning from our brothers who had accompanied him to the hospital where he had gone two weeks ago,” his son, Mohammed Said, said at the family's home in Kizingo, Mombasa as quoted by the Nation.

The family said that the businessman's burial will be done on Wednesday or Thursday depending on when the body arrives from South Africa.

The body will be taken to Masjid Nurein Mosque in Ganjoni.

TSS will be laid to rest at the Sarigoi Muslim Cemetery, the family said.