Bloody clashes in a prison in Sudan

Two Sudanese policemen were killed and other 57 were wounded including three police officers one is in a critical condition during clashes took place with prisoners in " Copper" prison in al-Khartoum Bahri district.

In a statement released on Monday evening the Sudanese ministry of the Interior announced that five prisoners were killed on Monday and other 23 wounded in incidents took place in this prison for the first time in its own history.

The ministry added in its statement that the prisoners started hunger strike since last Saturday asking for alleviating sentences convicted against them relating to drug trafficking and killing and theft acts and the ministry to pardon them and pay due fees resulted from the crimes they committed regardless to the volume of their crimes.

The ministry explained that those prisoners started on Monday morning acts of damaging and spoiling the prison's properties by setting fire in it. A situation which obliged the prison's administration to summon the police force who used tear gas to disperse the prisoners but were surprised by the prisoners using of weapons.

The ministry said that conditions are stable now in the prison and that specialized committees started investigating the implications of the incident.