By Euro Weekly News Media • Published: 04 Sep 2013 • 15:58
Ariel Castro, jailed for school bus kidnapping and holding three women captive for a decade in Cleveland, has died after allegedly hanging himself inside his prison cell.
Prison officials claim the 53-year-old was found in his cell at the Correctional Reception Centre in Orient, Ohio, at 9.20pm on Tuesday night.
Prison medical staff reportedly performed CPR on him before he was taken to hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
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