Immigration detention center in Darwin, Australia, on fire on Wednesday (08/31/2011). The fire allegedly deliberately lit prisoners from Indonesia to protest because they can not follow the Id prayers at the mosque.
Firefighters managed to extinguish the two fires. From outside the compound on fire resistance was seen to soar. The house was inhabited by 466 people prisoner.
Officials evacuated the house arrest of a number of locations at the facility. Meanwhile, fire fighting effort is not going smoothly because the prisoners were reportedly throwing stones at officers.
Some sources of home detainees told the ABC that the riot occurred at the complex the prisoners from Indonesia. They were among others arrested for human smuggling. Mentioned, some citizens of Indonesia (WNI) was angry because he could not follow the Id prayers at the mosque Darwin.
This is not the first incident for immigration detention in Darwin. In July, the prisoners who are mostly asylum seekers protested by sitting on the roof of the building as well as a hunger strike.
According to some legal advisers of detainees, six inmates attempted suicide in the span of three weeks, as reported bigpondnews.com.
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