Canadian serial killer dies after prison attack

Canadian serial killer Robert Pickton, who was convicted of killing six women and confessed to killing dozens more, died after being attacked earlier this month by another inmate.

Pickton was one of the most notorious serial killers in Canadian history.

The 74-year-old was sentenced to life in prison at the Port-Cartier Institution in Canada's Quebec province after being convicted of six counts of second-degree murder in 2007.

He suffered injuries in an attack involving another inmate on May 19 and died in hospital on Friday, the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) said.

Pickton ran a pig farm in the nearby town of Port Coquitlam, where police found the remains of 33 women.

However, Pickton confessed to killing 49 women.

The case became the largest serial killer investigation in Canadian history, and Pickton's pig farm became the largest crime scene in Canadian history, with investigators taking 200,000 DNA samples./ CNA

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