The death toll from a prison riot in Sri Lanka’s capital increased to 27 with 43 injured, officials said on Saturday.
Eleven bodies of prisoners were recovered Saturday inside the Welikada prison where inmates had attacked police on Friday, officials said.
Dr Anil Jaasinghe, director of the Colombo National Hospital, also said that several wounded prisoners had succumbed to injuries under treatment. Six other inmates remain in critical condition.
Soldiers sent to control the riot had brought the situation under control by Saturday morning, he said.
Authorities were still searching for six escaped prisoners and some weapons that had been removed from the armoury.
Prisoners had overpowered the guards and took at least 10 automatic weapons from the armoury. At least 15 of the injured were police.
It was country’s worst prison riot since 1983, when 35 prisoners were killed during ethnic clashes inside Welikada.
Keywords: Sri Lanka prison riots, Welikada prison
It has been and will always be a question that what would be the motive of the prisoners behind the riots in the Jails and the shooting of the prisoners from the roof of the Jails ??..Still if you look into the way the prisoners have managed the Venezuela Jails you would be amazed at the way they manage things inside the walls. So the real question would always be that what made those prisoners to break all the rules and revolt against the authorities.
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