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2 Killed and 18 Injured as Violence Breaks Out at Athens Prison

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Two people were killed and more than eighteen injured at Korydallos prison in Athens as inmates started fighting over control of Wing C, Greek authorities said.
The violence broke out when a group of Albanian and Arab inmates attacked a Pakistani group with makeshift knives resulting in the death of two Pakistani inmates.
The violence quickly escalated and riots broke out throughout wing C of Athens’ largest prison, however later the inmates returned to their cells.
Special police squads arrived at the prison to perform a thorough search for other weapons the inmates might have smuggled inside the prison.
The Korydallos prison, Greece’s largest one, is overpopulated and houses more than 2,000 convicts and inmates in six wings.
Often inmates have protested because of the harsh conditions in the prison, while guards have been complaining for understaffing.
 

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