A detainee at the US prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has died in what appears to have been a suicide.
The US Southern Command in Miami, which is responsible for Guantanamo, issued a brief statement last night saying that a detainee was found unresponsive and not breathing in his cell by guards. The detainee was pronounced dead by a physician after all lifesaving measures had been exhausted, the statement said.
The detainee was a Saudi national and is the fourth detainee to have died of an apparent suicide in the past year.
The camp, which opened in 2002, originally held over 700 terrorism suspects captured during the early stages of the war in Afghanistan.
Recently, suspects held at secret CIA detention camps around the world were also brought to Guantanamo.
There are currently around 380 detainees at the camp.
Human rights groups and the UN have criticised the running of the camp and efforts by the US to limit detainees to a military-style judicial system.
The US Naval Investigative Service has begun an investigation into last night's death.
