Three foreign prisoners being held at the US navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, died on Saturday in apparent suicides, the US military said. "Two Saudis and one Yemeni, each located in Camp 1, were found unresponsive and not breathing in their cells by guards," US Southern Command said in a statement.
The military said attempts to resuscitate the detainees failed and they were pronounced dead by a physician at Guantanamo, which holds just under 500 foreigners captured mainly in the US war against the Taleban in Afghanistan.
The names of the deceased - the first deaths at Guantanamo since it started being used as a prison camp in 2002 - were not released. The US military said the bodies were being treated "with the utmost respect." An investigation had begun, it said.