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Oscar Pistorius has been rushed to hospital after suffering injuries in prison.
The Paralympian, currently serving a six-year sentence for killing girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, was taken to a private hospital at around midday yesterday, according to South African prison officials.
Local website City Press reported he had sustained injuries to his wrists in jail.
Siphiwe Sibeko/ReutersA security guard told the site: “He had bad cuts on his wrists and the doctors kept wrapping bandages around them.”
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However, a spokesman for the country’s prisons said he had injured himself falling out of bed and told press that Pistorius denied his injuries were "a suicide attempt".
He has since been returned to jail.
The double-amputee was jailed in July for shooting his 29-year-old model girlfriend through a bathroom door.
He had already served a year in jail for manslaughter before his conviction was changed to murder.