Death toll from Iraq prison break rises to 72 - officials

The death toll from a prison break in Iraq climbed to 50 inmates and 12 police on Saturday, prison and police officials said.

May 09, 2015

Sahoub Baghdadi

 


 


BAGHDAD - The death toll from a prison break in Iraq climbed to 50 inmates and 12 police on Saturday, prison and police officials said.



The deaths occurred inside Al-Khalis prison northeast of Baghdad during a riot and on a manhunt for escaped convicts overnight, they said. — Reuters


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