Sri Lanka Prison Riot

Intermittent gunfire rang out Monday at a Sri Lankan high security prison where a riot by inmates over a surge of coronavirus infections left at least eight dead and 55 wounded, police said.

Sri Lanka's main opposition party Sunday demanded an independent inquiry into a prison riot that left 27 convicts dead, alleging many were shot by security forces in a cold-blooded "massacre".

A bullet-riddled taxi and a bloodstained road were mute testimony on Saturday to Sri Lanka's worst prison riot in three decades in which 27 people died and 43 were injured in an overnight gunbattle.

Sri Lankan troops found 11 bodies of convicts Saturday raising the death toll in an overnight prison riot in the capital to 27, prisons minister said.

At least nine people were killed and another 26 wounded at Sri Lanka's main prison on Friday after inmates overpowered guards and fought gun battles with elite police commandos, officials said.

Inmates and guards clashed at a Sri Lankan prison Tuesday, injuring at least 28 people before soldiers restored control after five hours, officials said. Reporters outside heard gunshots from within the compound in Colombo, and police fired tear gas before order was restored. Prisoners also set fire to the records room.

Intermittent gunfire rang out Monday at a Sri Lankan high security prison where a riot by inmates over a surge of coronavirus infections left at least eight dead and 55 wounded, police said.

Sri Lanka's main opposition party Sunday demanded an independent inquiry into a prison riot that left 27 convicts dead, alleging many were shot by security forces in a cold-blooded "massacre".

A bullet-riddled taxi and a bloodstained road were mute testimony on Saturday to Sri Lanka's worst prison riot in three decades in which 27 people died and 43 were injured in an overnight gunbattle.

Sri Lankan troops found 11 bodies of convicts Saturday raising the death toll in an overnight prison riot in the capital to 27, prisons minister said.

At least nine people were killed and another 26 wounded at Sri Lanka's main prison on Friday after inmates overpowered guards and fought gun battles with elite police commandos, officials said.

Inmates and guards clashed at a Sri Lankan prison Tuesday, injuring at least 28 people before soldiers restored control after five hours, officials said. Reporters outside heard gunshots from within the compound in Colombo, and police fired tear gas before order was restored. Prisoners also set fire to the records room.