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Indians shout slogans and burn an effigy representing Pakistan after Sarabjit Singh, a convicted Indian spy who was on Pakistan's death row, died from a head injury after two inmates attacked him with a brick in a Lahore jail, in Jammu, India, Thursday, May 2, 2013. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said his government would arrange to bring Singh's remains home and for his last rites to be conducted in consultation with his family. He was arrested in 1990 after bombings in Lahore and Faisalabad that killed 14 people and was convicted of spying and carrying out the bomb blasts, and the death sentence he received has been upheld in Pakistani superior courts. (AP)
Pakistan has charged two prisoners with the murder of an Indian man jailed for espionage, officials said Thursday.
Sarabjit Singh, who was sentenced 16 years ago over deadly bombings, died in the early hours of Thursday from injuries suffered in an attack on April 26.
"We have added a murder clause to the police complaint," Tariq Mehmood, a police official at Lahore's Kot Lakhpat police station, told AFP.
The two suspects were taken into custody immediately after last week's attack.
Pakistani police say Singh was hit with bricks and other blunt objects by two inmates, who have been identified only by single names Aamir and Mudasir.
The motive has been unclear, but police say an initial investigation pointed to an exchange of "hot words" with Singh.
Singh's lawyer Owais Sheikh said his client had received threats following the execution of a Kashmiri separatist in India. Mohammed Afzal Guru was hanged in New Delhi on February 9 for his part in a deadly attack on the Indian parliament in 2001.
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