Killer of 100 Children Is Found Dead in Jail

A Pakistani man sentenced to be strangled, chopped into pieces and dissolved in acid for the murders of 100 children was found dead in his cell in an apparent suicide, authorities said. An accomplice in the crimes was also found dead.

The bodies of Javed Iqbal and his 14-year-old accomplice, Sabir, were sent to a hospital for autopsies.

“They have committed suicide by taking some poisonous substance,” a jail official said in Lahore.

A judge sentenced Iqbal and Sabir last year to the same fate that befell their 100 victims. The sentence outraged many lawyers who said the judge had gone beyond Pakistani law, which says death sentences should be carried out by hanging.