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Three Dead in Southern Thai Prison Riot

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Three Dead in Southern Thai Prison Riot

Local Editor

Inmates burnt down two buildings at a southern Thai jail during a six-hour riot that left three prisoners dead and several officials injured, authorities said Saturday.

The mutiny broke out Friday afternoon when nearly 100 prisoners in southern Pattani province set fire to the jail’s cooking quarters, according to a military spokesman.

Around a hundred officers arrived at the scene and quelled the rioters before midnight, by which time a second building had been burned down and three prisoners were dead.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team