Ian Watkins , the former singer of the band Lostprophets , has been killed in a prison attack , several outlets report.

Watkins, a convicted sex offender , was serving a 29-year prison sentence when he was attacked.

The BBC reports that police responded to His Majesty’s Prison Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England Saturday, where they found Watkins, 48, dead after an alleged knife attack.

Sky News reports that a 25-year-old man and a 43-year-old man have been arrested in connection with the attack.

Lostprophets was a Welsh band founded in 1997 in Pontypridd. Watkins was a founding member of the group along with guitarist Lee Gaze.

Among five albums which spanned 2000 to 2012, the band released the UK No. 1 album “ Liberation Transmission ” in 2006. That same album charted at

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