Briton on death row shot in Pakistan prison

September 25, 2014 20:12

A 70-year-old British national, sentenced to death in Pakistan under controversial blasphemy law, was today shot and critically wounded by a police commando inside a prison in the garrison city of Rawalpindi.

Muhammad Asghar was attacked inside the Adiala Jail, where he was being held. Asghar was arrested in 2012 for allegedly claiming that he was a prophet and convicted in January this year.

A Rawalpindi police official told BBC Urdu service that the gunman who shot Asghar is Mohammad Yousuf, a member of the Elite Force of police commandos. He said Yousuf walked into Asghar's cell before shooting him.

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