Nine detainees were killed during a mutiny in a Lima prison, where prisoners died of the Covid-19, according to a new report released Tuesday by the authorities, which reported 67 injured among detainees, guards and security forces. 'order. "The mutiny killed nine among the detainees and 67 people were injured among police officers, detainees and supervisors," the National Penitentiary Institute (INPE) said in a statement.
A previous assessment reported eight killed. Among the injured were 60 prison guards, five police officers and two detainees, according to the INPE. "All the bodies were taken to the central morgue in Lima for the legal autopsy, with a diagnosis of an alleged bullet impact , " added the police.
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The mutiny in Miguel Castro Castro prison in the east of the Peruvian capital began on Monday after the death the day before of two inmates infected with coronavirus. Prisoners set fire to mattresses to protest the refusal to release vulnerable detainees in an overcrowded, overcrowded facility, where they cannot receive proper care.
INPE director Gerson Villar confirmed that two inmates at the prison died of Covid-19 on Sunday and said the demands were for pardons ordered due to the pandemic. The Peruvian government announced last week that it would pardon some 3,000 vulnerable prisoners.
Miguel Castro Castro prison has 5,500 inmates with a theoretical capacity of 1,140 places.