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The jail in Villavicencio is at the centre of one particular of the worst outbreaks in Colombia
Guards have foiled an attempted jail split and riot at a jail in central Colombia which has hundreds of circumstances of coronavirus, officers say.
7 inmates tried using to dig a tunnel out of one particular of the cells at a jail in Villavicencio, guards stated. House-created weapons that were being going to be utilized in an rebellion have been seized, they incorporate.
The jail has 314 coronavirus conditions, the highest variety of any Colombian prison.
Inmates have protested about the superior hazard they operate of contracting the virus.
Amongst the additional than 300 people who examined constructive at the jail are both guards and prisoners.
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Villavicencio jail has more than 1,700 prisoners and is severely overcrowded, according to the prison authorities.
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Both equally guards and inmates as nicely as a jail cook dinner have analyzed good for coronavirus
The prison authorities gave small detail about the tunnel that was beneath building but they did release a photograph of the weapons they seized.
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Guards seized dozens of home-built weapons as nicely as 4 cell phones
Tension has been working superior in Colombian prisons amid the coronavirus outbreak.
A month ago, much more than 20 inmates were being killed when rioting broke out in one of the country’s largest prisons, La Modelo, in Bogotá.
The federal government has decreed that thousands of the most susceptible prisoners be temporarily moved into property arrest but so considerably only a handful have been moved.