World IN BRIEF : INDIA : Suspect in Gandhi’s Killing Found Slain
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
A man accused of helping the killers of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was found dead, his body hanging from a tree near a house where police were holding him. Unidentified officials were quoted as saying N. Shanmugam, a confessed arms smuggler who was arrested Wednesday, escaped from a government lodging house in Vedaranniyam, in southern Tamil Nadu state. Full circumstances of his death were not known. He was the 13th suspect arrested in Gandhi’s May 21 assassination.
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