Sri Lanka’s justice minister Harshana Nanayakkara has accepted personal responsibility after 26 people were killed in the country’s deadliest prison clash in years. Over 100 people have been injured, ...

Twenty-five people were killed and about 100 injured as security officials struggled to contain two days of ‌clashes between ...

Deadly clashes broke out inside a prison in the outskirts of Sri Lanka’s capital, officials said on Monday. Unrest broke out at the prison in Negombo, about 35 kilometers (22 miles) north of the ...

Colombo ― Twenty-five people were killed and about 100 injured as security officials struggled to contain two days of clashes ...

Clashes in a Sri Lankan jail have killed at least 19 people, including four guards, and wounded more than 100 in the worst prison riot in more than five years, officials said Monday.

Geetha’s life stands as a fine example to all comrades and to all those in the future who will take up the struggle for ...

The country has faced criticism from human rights activists for the conditions in its prisons, including overcrowding and ...

In what appeared to be yet another deadly outbreak of rioting, 19 inmates and seven prison officers were killed, and around ...

At least 25 people have been killed and more than 100 were wounded in clashes between ‌two groups of prisoners at a prison in Sri Lanka on Monday, police sources ​and hospital sources said.

‘I accept responsibility’: Sri Lankan minister says situation under control after nation’s deadliest prison riot kills 26 - ...