Mubarak had heart attack ahead of questioning over corruption: reports (UPDATES) (VIDEO)

Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has reportedly suffered a heart attack and been hospitalized in a Red Sea resort town on the same day he was to face questioning for the deaths of hundreds of protesters during the recent public unrest against his near 30-year rule and allegations of corruption.

According to one report, Mubarak was sent into an intensive care unit in the Sharm el-Sheikh international hospital, with his wife Suzanne and two sons, Alaa and Gamal, accompanying him.

Another said he had arrived in an armored Mercedes, stepping out unaided and under heavy security, and then had been been taken to the hospital's presidential suite.

Egyptian state TV reported that Mubarak collapsed just before he was to have been questioned by prosecutors. The report added that Mubarak had stopped eating and drinking after he was summoned by prosecutors on Sunday for questioning.

Pro-democracy activists held a protest outside the hospital after Mubarak was admitted, according to the Associated Press.

The country's public prosecutor has also summoned Mubarak and his sons, Gamal and Alaa, according to VOA, as part of an investigation into the alleged embezzlement of public funds and violence against protesters during the 18-day revolt that started on Jan. 25 and ended with the ex-president’s ouster.

The state-run newspaper Al Ahram reported that Gamal Mubarak, head of the former ruling National Democratic Party’s policies committee, was on his way to Cairo to be questioned late on Tuesday.

Mubarak, in his first public remarks since his ouster, broadcast Sunday by the Al-Arabiya, tried to clear his name of wrongdoing by denying he held bank accounts or properties outside Egypt. News of investigations into the Mubarak family's financial dealings — including that Mubarak has assets worth $70 billion — have angered Egyptians as they try to move beyond a repressive police state, according to the LA Times.

Mubarak said he had the right to defend his reputation and that of his family.

Since Feb. 11, when Egypt was taken over by a military council, the 82-year-old has been living in his private palace in Sharm El Sheikh, with his assets frozen and a travel ban imposed on his family members.

Mubarak underwent gallbladder surgery and had a growth removed from his intestine at a German hospital one year ago.

— Freya Petersen