YANGON, Myanmar, Dec 7 — A prisoner was killed and more than 60 wounded after a riot broke out at a Myanmar prison west of Yangon, the junta said on Saturday. Myanmar has been...
YANGON, Myanmar, Dec 7 — A prisoner was killed and more than 60 wounded after a riot broke out at a Myanmar prison west of Yangon, the junta said on Saturday.
The riot at the prison in Pathein started after guards confiscated a mobile phone from an inmate on Thursday night and took disciplinary action, the junta said in a statement.Prisoners used sticks, bricks and pieces of cement to attack security forces, the junta said. “The authorities fired guns to break up the crowd and bring the riot under control,” the statement said.
More than 2,700 people have been killed since the military seized power and more than 13,000 people are detained as part of a crackdown on dissent, according to a local monitoring group.
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