67 Algerians escaped from detention centre in Spain after rioting and assaulting 5 policemen. One of the Algerians pretended to be ill and when officers guarding the facilities granted access to an ambulance, inmates staged the mutiny.

translated from Spanish

A total of 67 migrants escaped Wednesday night from an immigration detention centre in Sangonera la Verde (Murcia) after one of them pretended to feel unwell and when the police officers opened the gates to receive and ambulance they then staged a mutiny on the premises which left five officers of the National Police wounded.

The five officers were assaulted with knives and fire extinguishers obtained because the migrants had gained access to the center's kitchen. The policemen were injured with contusions, although none of them is in serious condition.

In total, at the centre there were 127 migrants at the time of the event, of which escaped 67. The National Police of the Provincial Brigade of Public Safety immediately enabled a special search mission with the collaboration of the local Police at Molina de Segura and Cartagena which has resulted so far in the arrest of 38 of the 67 escapees.

The search mission is continuing and trying and determine the whereabouts of the other 29 immigrants who remain fugitives, according to the same sources. Four of the wounded officers were taken by ambulance to Hospital La Vega de Murcia, while the fifth was moved by his own means to Quirónsalud Hospital in Murcia.

None of them had serious injuries, according to Europa Press sources Coordination Center emergencies.

The detention centre at Sangonera was at maximum occupancy with 127 illegal immigrants, all Algerian nationality, and police sources have said that is not the first time that altercations have occurred inside. At ICN Sangonera, inmates are referred to the Consulate of Algeria to process their expulsion.

http://www.elconfidencial.com/espana/2016-10-06/inmigrantes-fugan-centro-internamiento-motin-agredir-policia_1271101/

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