Police have launched investigations into the death of an inmate inside a washroom in the Polonnaruwa Prison.

Police said they found the inmate hanging inside the washroom and they further said that the inmate was dead at the time he was hospitalised.

The deceased is an individual who was imprisoned for a alleged murder which took place in Hingurakgoda.

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