Post by Moses on Jun 8, 2005 5:13:32 GMT -5
AFX News Limited
Failed breakout at Abu Ghraib jail in Iraq leads to rioting
06.07.2005, 05:13 AM
BAGHDAD (AFX) - Reports are only just emerging that rioting erupted in the US-run Abu Ghraib prison on Baghdad's western outskirts on Sunday night, after a detainee tried to escape under the cover of a heavy sandstorm, the US military said.
'The disturbance occurred shortly after a detainee, using the hours of darkness and a heavy sandstorm, was caught trying to escape,' a statement said.
'Detainees in several of the compounds began throwing rocks at the portable light generators and the guards,' it said, adding that the incident occurred on Sunday, shortly before midnight.
Four guards and six detainees were injured in the disturbance and treated at the scene.
All detainees were accounted for after the disturbance ended, the statement said, without providing further details.
In May, three detainees escaped from Abu Ghraib -- the scene of graphic photographs of abuse of Iraqi prisoners by their US warders that made headlines around the world in April last year.
newsdesk@afxnews.com
/cjo/wai/kir/ims