Killer Robert Pickton, who took victims to pig farm, dies after prison attack

Robert Pickton takes notes his trial in 2006 (Jane Wolsack/The Canadian Press/AP)

Convicted Canadian serial killer Robert Pickton, who took female victims to his pig farm during a crime spree near Vancouver in the late 1990s and early 2000s, has died after being attacked in prison, authorities said on Wednesday. He was 74.

The Correctional Service Canada said in a statement that Pickton, an inmate at Port-Cartier Institution in Quebec, died in hospital of his injuries after an attack involving another inmate on May 19.