UMM Al QUWAIN // An Emirati prisoner has been found hanged by his own clothes in the central prison.
The dead man, identified as HA who was in his late 20s, was found on Monday evening. Prison officials took the man to UAQ Hospital from where relatives took possession of the body to arrange a burial in a UAQ graveyard yesterday afternoon.
A police spokesman said although suicide was suspected, investigations were ongoing.
He said that HA had been imprisoned for various crimes and he had attempted suicide in the past. His fellow inmates were on those occasions able to intervene and he was taken to hospital for treatment and offered counselling.
The spokesman said suicide attempts were not common in the Emirates' punitive and rehabilitative establishments.
ykakande@thenational.ae
