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| Seven killed during Haiti prison riot |
| By Reuters |
| Published: 12/06/2004 |
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Officers shot and killed seven prisoners last Wednesday during a riot at Haiti's national penitentiary, police said. Four police officers were injured in the violence, which erupted when a group of inmates broke the locks on their cells and attacked the officers, said Sony Marcelus, a police inspector at the penitentiary. The crowded penitentiary in Port-au-Prince holds 1,070 inmates, hundreds more than it was built to accommodate. Several high-ranking members of the Lavalas Family political party of ousted former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide are at the prison. |
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