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A major riot involving 500 prisoners broke out at a penitentiary in the Ukrainian city of Odessa on Monday with the inmates setting fire to buildings and wounding seven staff members, officials said. Authorities deployed several hundred National Guard troopsHundreds of prisoners start fires, wound staff in Ukraine riot
A major riot involving 500 prisoners broke out at a penitentiary in the Ukrainian city of Odessa on Monday with the inmates setting fire to buildings and wounding seven staff members, officials said. Authorities deployed several hundred National Guard troops and police to help put down the riot, an AFP photographer at the scene said. The violence broke out at the facility in the Black Sea port city as authorities planned to move several convicts to a different prison, officials said, adding that the situation was now under control. Prisoners «attacked and wounded seven employees» and set alight a fire engine and several areas including the prison library, Ukraine's prison service said. Ruslan Forostyak, a regional police spokesman, told AFP that the rioters barricaded themselves inside their living quarters. The country's rights ombudswoman, Lyudmyla Denisova, said the rioters also took three medics and three guards hostage, but later said on Facebook,«they have been freed». «The situation is under police control right now,» she said. At least six men who had arrived at the scene to support the prisoners were detained, according to the AFP photographer. A law enforcement source... Read more
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