28 Reportedly Killed in Fighting at Mali Prison
Twenty-eight prisoners were killed at Mali’s main prison when rioting inmates fought each other in a dispute over whether to stage a mass breakout, human rights activists said Friday.
Security forces stormed Bamako’s central prison Thursday to quell a two-day mutiny by inmates angry at their exclusion from festivities marking a pro-democracy coup a year ago.
“From the information we have now it seems (the prisoners) fought among themselves and in the end there were deaths,” said Cheikh Abdoulaye Cisse, vice chairman of the Mali Human Rights Assn.
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