Milosevic may have committed suicide

"Of course it could be possible," she said, noting that the death of the former Yugoslav president on Saturday was the second within a week at the tribunal's detention centre after the suicide of former rebel Croatian Serb leader Milan Babic.

She added that she expected initial results of the autopsy on Milosevic later on Sunday or on Monday, although she noted that results of toxicology tests could take longer.

The death of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic in a United Nations cell prompted widespread dismay that the "Butcher of the Balkans" had escaped justice.