Riots in Sri Lanka prisons leave 26 dead and more than 100 injured0

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• July 6, 2026

Riots at a prison in western Sri Lanka have killed 26 people, seven of them guards, and injured more than 100. The two days of violence at Negombo prison, in a coastal town north of Colombo, began with clashes between two groups of inmates. The prisoners apparently grabbed the guards’ weapons on Sunday. That day