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| Prisoners wounded in Phillipines jail riot |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 05/08/2006 |
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MANILA, PHILLINES - A riot between rival gang members in a Philippine jail left at least 11 inmates injured, including four members of the Muslim militant group Abu Sayyaf, jail and police officials said Monday. Heavily armed police commandos rushed into the Metro Manila Rehabilitation Center late Sunday to help officers bring the nearly two-hour riot under control, Manila police spokesman Agrimero Cruz said. The melee broke out between two non-Muslim gangs and did not involve the Abu Sayyaf detainees but the Muslim inmates were hit by bullet shrapnel when officers fired warning shots to contain the unruly crowd, jail warden Ruel Rivera said. "The crowd was too big, it was difficult to control them so our men fired several shots,'' Rivera said. The four Abu Sayyaf members, charged with various criminal offenses including kidnapping, were in an adjacent prison wing separated from the rioters by chicken wire and iron sheets, he said. The jail is for suspects undergoing or awaiting trial. Nine inmates were injured in the prison wing where the rioters from the Sigue-Sigue and Bahala Na gang were staying, he added. Cruz said there was no attempted jailbreak, although officials who searched the prison compound confiscated various improvised weapons including handmade knives and clubs. The same prison was the scene of a bloody two-day siege in March last year, when a group of Abu Sayyaf inmates killed three jail officers before seizing the compound. After a 24-hour standoff, police commandos stormed the jail, killing 22 inmates, including several top Abu Sayyaf commanders. |
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