Tributes as Kohl, 87, dies

FORMER German Chancellor Helmut Kohl has died aged 87.

Germany’s longest serving post-war leader, he had been wheelchair-bound since a fall in 2008.

His Christian Democratic Union party tweeted: “We mourn.”

As chancellor from 1982 to 1998, Kohl was the architect of German reunification.

He was a driving force behind the euro, and pushed for closer European integration.