Search ends for most-wanted Nazi

An undated handout shows photos of former fugitive concentration camp doctor Aribert Heim Photograph: Zdf/EPA

Efraim Zuroff, director of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre office in Jerusalem, holds up a document with pictures of Nazi war criminal Aribert Heim during a news conference at Puerto Montt in southern Chile in July 2008. The long search for Heim had centred on south America Photograph: Stringer/Chile/Reuters

A copy of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf sits with books about former Israeli premier Golda Meir, late Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser, executed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein on a street stand in Cairo, the city where Dr Heim may have been hiding out until his supposed death in August 1992 Photograph: Cris Bouroncle/Getty

Egyptian unemployed trader Gamal Abu Ahmed, 47, reminisces about Heim's time at the rooms he now occupies in the run-down Kasr el-Medina hotel in Cairo. Heim was known to friends in his last few years as Tarek Hussein Farid Photograph: Cris Bouroncle/Getty

A cardboard recycler walks past signage at the entrance of what was once the lobby of the Kasr el-Medina hotel, where Heim used to live Photograph: Cris Bouroncle/Getty

An undated handout shows Heim's death certificate. Although hs son, Ruediger Heim, now admits his father died of cancer on 10 August 1992, some questions remain unanswered Photograph: Zdf/EPA