LAHORE, Pakistan, March 16 (UPI) -- An American accused of killing two Pakistani men in Lahore was freed from jail Wednesday after making payment to the victims' families, legal officials said.
Provincial law minister Rana Sanaullah said CIA contractor Raymond Davis was released after paying diyat, or blood money, to the relatives and they pardoned him, Geo News reported
"The family members of the slain men appeared in the court and independently verified they had pardoned (Davis)," Sanaullah said. He has been released from jail."
Davis now "can go wherever he wants," Sanaullah said.
Earlier Wednesday, a Pakistani court indicted Davis in the Jan. 27 shooting deaths of the two Pakistani men, which Davis claimed were in self-defense. The shootings led to diplomatic tensions between Pakistan and the United States, which has maintained Davis was an embassy employee and enjoyed diplomatic immunity.
