Uzbek President Islam Karimov's daughter Lola Karimova-Tillyaeva said that her father was recovering from a brain hemorrhage, countering speculation that he had died.
In an Instagram message, Lola Karimova-Tillyaeva thanked well-wishers for their support, saying this was helping her father's recovery, Reuters reports.
The message came after reports in some media that Karimov, 78, the only ruler Uzbekistan has known since gaining independence in 1991, had died after the brain hemorrhage.
