Twenty-five people were killed and about 100 injured in clashes between two groups of inmates at a prison in Sri Lanka on Monday.
The clashes began on Sunday between convicted prisoners and other detainees in Negombo, about 35km north of Colombo, two police sources and one hospital source told Reuters.
The cause of the fighting was not immediately known.
Police sources said that areas within the prison were still being cleared, with officials working to account for the dead and the injured.
"[The] Military has been requested to provide support to the police but at the moment they are on standby," army spokesman Brig Waruna Gamage said.
Footage from Derana TV showed a heavy police deployment outside the gate of the prison as a police bus carrying the injured inmates, some of them sprawled on its floor, left the premises.
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