DHAKA: Ariel Castro, who kept women captive at his home in Cleveland, Ohio, has been found dead in his cell, US media say.

Prison officials are quoted as saying he was found hanging at a prison in Orient, Ohio, late on Tuesday.

Castro, 53, held three women against their will for about a decade until May this year. He kept his victims chained up and raped them.

He was sentenced on 1 August to life imprisonment without parole plus 1,000 years. The house was demolished.

The former school bus driver abducted Michelle Knight, 32, Amanda Berry, 27, and Gina DeJesus, 23, from the Cleveland streets between 2002-04.

Source: BBC
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