The army has been called in and surrounding roads are closed. Up to 4,000 inmates are held in the reformatory, which has seen intensity before. In January 25 prisoners and four guards were wounded when clashes erupted, and in 2010 more than 50 the fuzz and prison guards were wounded during a raid to seize transportable phones. The helmsman of the Citizen Dispensary in Colombo said that 11 people, all of them prison inmates, had been killed in this latest violence. Some had died attempting to take french leave the jail. The BBC's Charles Haviland in Colombo said it is not unmistakable how varied more people may procure died in the incident. Some 30 people, including a senior police officer, are injured, and inmates are reported to be holding quod staff hostage. Eyewitness reports rumour inmates were seen waving rifles from the roof of a reformatory building. But a elder advisor to the house of detention ministry told BBC Sinhala that the place was under control. A detainee who was in the penitentiary at the time told the BBC Sinhala's Saroj Pathirana that clashes penurious out when the gendarmes commandos entered the nick, winning prisoners out of their cells and handcuffing them. Some reports say the the fuzz may give birth to been searching on drugs and smuggled flexible phones. The prisoner told our journalist that inmates seized weapons from the lock-up's weapon put by during the confrontation.

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