PRISONER DIES IN MELEE AT MAKHADO JAIL
A prisoner was found dead after convicts torched part of a gaol at Makhado on Tuesday night, police said.
Limpopo police spokesman Superintendent Ailwei Mushavhanamadi said on Wednesday that junior warders at the prison were on strike and only senior jailers were on duty.
Police and SANDF members had been called in to assist in guarding the prisoners.
The prisoners had also gone on strike and rubber bullets had been fired to prevent them from "running away" about 9.45pm, Mushavhanamadi said.
A prisoner, aged 37, was later found dead and another injured.
The situation had since normalised and the convicts, most of whom were serving life or lengthy sentences, had returned to their cells.
The jail block that had been torched housed offices and damage amounted to about R1 million.
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