Inmate found dead in a prison cell

16 October 2016 10:45 am

A 51-year-old inmate was found dead hanging inside a cell at the Anuradhapura prisons yesterday.

Police said the prisoner who had been imprisoned over a murder succumbed after he was admitted to the Anuradhapura Hospital.

The post mortem examinations revealed that the death was a suicide.

The victim was identified as a resident of Maradankadawala.