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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Shweta Sharma

‘I accept responsibility’: Sri Lankan minister says situation under control after nation’s deadliest prison riot kills 26

Sri Lanka’s justice minister Harshana Nanayakkara has accepted personal responsibility after 26 people were killed in the country’s deadliest prison clash in years.

Over 100 people have been injured, including inmates and officers, during the two days of violence at Negombo Prison, in a coastal town north of Colombo.

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