Omar Sheikh attempts suicide in Pak jail

February 16, 2014 20:12

Omar Saeed Sheikh, the terrorist freed by India in exchange for the hostages of a hijacked Indian Airlines plane in 2000, has attempted suicide in a Pakistani jail, an official has said.

The British-Pakistani national, sentenced to death for killing Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, attempted to take his life in Hyderabad central jail in Sindh province on Wednesday night, senior prison official Akram Naeem said.

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