Sirhan Sirhan, imprisoned for more than 50 years for the 1968 assassination of US senator Robert F. Kennedy, is back inside a California prison after being attacked by another inmate and taken to hospital.
State corrections department spokesman Jeffrey Callison said a wounded inmate was returned to the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility near San Diego on Saturday.
A government source with direct knowledge confirmed Sirhan was the victim.
Officials had confirmed an inmate was taken to a hospital on Friday but did not name Sirhan.
Mr Callison did not identify the wounded inmate.
Mr Kennedy, the brother of assassinated US president John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was gunned down while seeking the Democratic Party’s nomination for the presidency.
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