A 35-year-old man was killed in the central prison on Sunday, with the police on Monday having arrested another inmate on suspicion of premeditated murder.

The police on Monday confirmed that a 30-year-old inmate has been arrested and that he is expected to appear in court later in the day to be issued a remand.

They added that an autopsy is to be performed on the victim’s body to clarify the cause of the 35-year-old’s death.

According to newspaper Phileleftheros, the victim was a 35-year-old Egyptian national who was killed following an “incident” with a fellow inmate.

The newspaper reported that the incident occurred late on Sunday afternoon, and that an inmate “entered the 35-year-old Egyptian’s cell and left it in 10 seconds”.

“It seems that there was an incident between them and the prison guards immediately intervened and separated them,” it added, before stating that “after eight or ten minutes had passed, [the victim] felt unwell and collapsed”.

News website Reporter, meanwhile, wrote that the victim was taken to hospital after the incident and that “despite doctors’ efforts to revive him, this was not possible”.

It described the incident between the two men as a “fierce fight”.