Former Nazi death camp guard dies

Former Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk, sentenced to five years in a German prison last year in one of the last major trials of its kind, has died at the age of 91, police said yesterday.
The Ukrainian-born Demjanjuk had been found guilty of more than 27,000 counts of accessory to murder during the six months he was a guard at the Sobibor death camp in 1943.
The ailing Demjanjuk was sentenced by a Munich court in May 2011 after a trial lasting 18 months.
Police in the southern state of Bavaria said he died in a home for the aged in the town of Bad Feilnbach, adding that prosecutors would now conduct a routine investigation into the cause of death.