MANILA, Philippines – (UPDATE) A basketball which flew into an inmate's sizzling hot frying pan led to a commotion between two groups at the Quezon City Jail Saturday evening, barely an hour after a tense noise barrage rocked the Pasay City jail at the other side of Metro Manila.

Inspector Corazon Sandoval of the Kamuning Police Station said no one was hurt or killed in the melee, which lasted for only about 10 minutes.

“The jail guards were able to pacify the inmates and locked them up before things could get out of hand,” she told the Inquirer in a phone interview.

The commotion came more than an hour after inmates at the Pasay City Jail quieted down after a noise barrage on Saturday afternoon.

Initial investigation showed that at around 6:45 p.m., some members of the Batang City Jail were playing basketball on a court inside the Quezon City Jail compound while an inmate of the Commando group was cooking his meal.

Sandoval said the ball flew into the frying pan, causing some of the hot oil to splatter on the inmate's skin. The unidentified inmate was immediately brought to the jail infirmary for treatment.

Members of the Commando gang waited for the BCJ to apologize for the accident and when none came, things began to fly.

“Heads heated up because the Commando members waited for someone to say sorry, but nobody did. They started hurling dippers, pots, whatever they could find,” she related.

Jail guards immediately rushed to pacify the inmates and the two groups eventually came to an amicable agreement.

Sandoval said they sent two police patrol cars and an investigator to look into incident.

A member of the jail staff who declined to be identified, said they will be conducting an inspection among the inmates for any bladed objects or other deadly weapons.

Earlier, tension continued grip the Pasay City Jail after inmates held an hour-long noise barrage to protest the alleged beating that a gang leader suffered at the hands of a jail guard.

Some 450 inmates of the Pasay City Jail started their protest around 4:30 p.m. by banging the steel bars of their prison cells with different objects.

Senior Superintendent Raul Petrasanta, Pasay police chief, said the detainees denounced a certain Jail Officer 1 Bon who supposedly beat up Egmidio Vosotros, said to be a mayores (leader) of Sputnik Gang.

Petrasanta said the inmates also assailed jail officials for transferring the gang leader to the Metropolitan Manila District Jail in Bicutan, Taguig City.

He said the angry inmates were eventually pacified after senior jail officials promised to investigate the incident.

In a petition they sent to members of the media, the prisoners complained that Bon punched Vosotros in the face and stomach when he tried to get the permission of the guard to use the pay phone.

Supt. Wenefredo Abordo, warden of the city jail, said they were still conducting an investigation on the incident.