Soldiers patrol riot-hit Myanmar town
Troops patrolled the streets of a central Myanmar town Saturday after Buddhist-Muslim unrest tore through the area leaving at least 20 dead and spurring the government to declare emergency rule.
Troops patrolled the streets of a central Myanmar town Saturday after Buddhist-Muslim unrest tore through the area leaving at least 20 dead and spurring the government to declare emergency rule.
The death toll has risen to 61 following fierce gunbattles between inmates and National Guard troops at a Venezuelan prison, a hospital director said Saturday. About 120 more people were wounded in one of the deadliest prison riots in the nation’s recent history.
Northern Ireland police fought day-and-night street battles with Protestant militants Saturday as a protest march to Belfast City Hall degenerated into riots when many marchers returned home to the Protestant east side.
Police yesterday scrambled to secure the Cebu provincial jail and the adjacent city jail after rumors spread that a riot or a jail break would occur apparently to embarrass acting Cebu Gov. Agnes Magpale who was scheduled to visit the penal facility.
Amid calls for an inquiry into Monday’s deadly riot at Silverio Compound in Parañaque City, the local police chief on Tuesday admitted that his men used live ammunition to deal with the rock-throwing residents, but maintained that only warning shots were fired.
One of the busiest thoroughfares in Parañaque City turned into a battle zone Monday as policemen clashed with residents of Silverio Compound who were fighting a court order for the demolition of dozens of stalls at a flea market.
TOURISTS and other spectators who want to experience dancing with Cebu’s famed “dancing inmates” in the quadrangle of the provincial jail may no longer get that chance.
AN inquiry into the near-riot that broke out at the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC) last month will be held by the Cebu Provincial Board (PB) in its session today.
Give us a time to initiate changes in the facility. This was the call of Jose Marie Gastardo, Capitol consultant on jail matters, and acting jail warden Napoleon Miranda to relatives of Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC) inmates.
AN inquiry into the suspension of jail visits and delays in the delivery of food to inmates of the Cebu Provincial Rehabilitation and Detention Center (CPDRC) may be in the offing.
THE management of the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC) denied reports that inmates were starved after the near-riot last week.
No more public shows or family visitors for Cebu’s world-famous “dancing inmates”.
Indonesian authorities on Thursday began evacuating foreigners and women from a jail on the resort island of Bali after rioting inmates retook control triggering a tense stand-off.
