Authorities in the UK have launched an investigation into the death of a 38 year-old Jamaican immigration detainee.
His identity has not been released.
The Home Office confirmed that the Jamaican man died on Tuesday while being held at Morton Hall immigration removal centre in Lincoln.
It is the third such death in less than a month and human rights campaigners in Britain have expressed alarm at the incident.
The prisons and probation ombudsman has begun an investigation.
The Home Office said it will make no further comment while the matter is being investigated.
The charity, Medical Justice, which works to improve the health of immigration detainees in the UK, has documented 43 deaths, in immigration detention or shortly after release, since 2000.
On September 19 a Chinese detainee died at Dungavel immigration removal centre in Scotland, and on September 7, a 28 year-old Polish man, recently released from Harmondsworth immigration removal centre near Heathrow Airport, died in hospital after life support was withdrawn.
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