Seventeen killed in Guatemala prison fight: official
December 01, 2015  01:20
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Seventeen people have been killed in fighting inside a maximum security prison in Guatemala,officials said today as hundreds of police moved to take control of the facility.
Army troops and police officers surrounded the Granja Penal Canada prison, which holds 3,100 inmates, following violence that erupted on Sunday.

After police went inside to round up prisoners and search for reported firearms, AFP saw groups of inmates made to stand or sit on the grounds as officers monitored them, batons in hand.
More than 2,000 police were deployed at the prison, backed by dozens of soldiers and an armored vehicle. The facility is circled by three security fences, one of them electrified. 

Meanwhile the death toll from the episode increased from 16 to 17 after one inmate died in a state hospital from injuries, an official from the district attorney's office said.
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