Inmate stabs prison chief in the head with scissors

A prisoner in Tajikistan stabbed a prison governor to death with scissors after being ordered to give him a haircut, the interior ministry said Monday.

The 66-year-old prison governor "on Sunday evening asked the prisoner, who had worked as a hairdresser before being jailed, to come to his office to cut his hair", an interior ministry spokesman said.

The prisoner then used his scissors to stab the prison governor once in the head and then 16 times in his body. The official died before reaching the hospital.

The 29-year-old prisoner had been sentenced several months earlier to 17½ years behind bars for murdering a young man, whom he stabbed 57 times. - AFP.