JAKARTA - A total of 25 people, including prisoners and security personnel, were killed in a prison in Sri Lanka due to bloody clashes that have entered the second day.
According to the Ada Derana report, the dead included 20 prisoners and five prison personnel. Meanwhile, more than 100 people were reported injured in the same clash.
Local authorities deployed military personnel to control the situation as police personnel "fired to control a clash between prisoners and prison officers" after "new clashes" at Negombo Prison, a News Wire report said.
As reported by ANTARA from Anadolu, Monday, July 6, the new clashes in the prison located on the west coast of Sri Lanka occurred following "confrontations between prisoners and prison authorities".
The injured victims in the clash were evacuated to local health facilities.
Meanwhile, on Sunday (5/7), clashes occurred between "pre-trial detainees and convicts which resulted in the death of two detainees and 38 others were injured," according to the report.
With the strengthening of security, the prison authorities conducted an investigation to find out the cause of the bloody clash in the prison, which now houses 2,417 prisoners.
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