Source: Fox News
KABUL, Afghanistan — Police fired at inmates trying to push down a gate at Kabul’s main jail as about 2,000 prisoners resumed rioting Tuesday after a 24-hour pause in violence. One inmate died and three were wounded in the renewed fighting, police said.
The clashes restarted after negotiations broke down, said Abdul Halik, a police commander in the prison. He said authorities had urged the prisoners to move into a different wing of the jail but the inmates refused.
“The prisoners have tried to break down the door to their block and the police opened fire,” Halik said. It was not immediately clear if there were any casualties.
He said the prisoners then retreated inside the building. Even if the prisoners had managed to flee their block, they would still have been inside the prison compound and a tall wall would have prevented them from escaping outside.
A purported spokesman for the prisoners, who identified himself only by the name Maqsodi, told The Associated Press by mobile phone from inside the jail that the prisoners refused to move because living conditions were no better in the new block.
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