The World - News from Jan. 8, 1986

The Egyptian policeman sentenced to life in prison for killing seven Israeli tourists in the Sinai in October was found dead at a prison hospital, apparently a suicide victim. Egyptian state-guided news media said that Sgt. Suleiman Khater, 25, was found hanged with a bed sheet from window bars of his prison hospital room. An autopsy by the Justice Ministry’s chief coroner was under way. Khater, a law student who was drafted into the police force, shot the Israeli tourists Oct. 5 at Ras Burka along the Egyptian-Israeli border.