Leader of the Ja­maat Al Mus­limeen, Imam Yasin Abu Bakr, has died.

Bakr passed away at the St. James in­fir­mary just af­ter 9 pm last night af­ter be­ing rushed there hav­ing col­lapsed at home.

Bakr, who led an at­tempt­ed coup d’état in Trinidad and To­ba­go in 1990, turned 80 on Tues­day.

Yes­ter­day al­so marked the one year an­niver­sary of his wife’s death.

His son, Fuad Abu Bakr post­ed on his Face­book page at 9:42 pm, “To Al­lah we be­long and to him is our even­tu­al re­turn. AL­LAHU AK­BAR.”

On Ju­ly 27, 1990, Bakr, who was born Lennox Phillip, led 100 fol­low­ers to storm the Par­lia­ment and took then Prime Min­is­ter Arthur NR Robin­son and oth­er Par­lia­men­tar­i­ans hostage.

They sur­ren­dered to po­lice six days lat­er and were charged with trea­son, but were or­dered re­leased two years lat­er by the Court of Ap­peal. The Privy Coun­cil lat­er in­val­i­dat­ed an Amnesty that was giv­en to them be­fore their ar­rest, but they were not re­ar­rest­ed.

Twen­ty four peo­ple were killed and many more were in­jured in the coup.