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Sri Lanka deploys troops after prison riot

Sri Lanka deployed hundreds of troops and elite commandos on Sunday to contain riots at an overcrowded prison in which an inmate was killed and six others wounded, police said. In November 2020, a riot erupted at the facility in which 11 inmates were shot and killed, and nearly 120 others wounded.

2 Aug 2026 12:40 pm