An officer was taken hostage by Fatah al-Islam inmates and around five soldiers were injured in a riot that broke out at Roumieh prison at dawn Friday, media reports said.
A high-ranking source told Voice of Lebanon radio station (93.3) that the riot started with a dispute over a decision to make changes in the responsibilities of soldiers and during routine prison search.
The rioters attacked the soldiers with sticks, wounding five of them at the third floor of the prison’s bloc B, VDL said. A Fatah al-Islam member was also injured, it said.
But the National News Agency said four Internal Security Forces members and four prisoners were injured.
The riot came to an end a few hours after it broke out following negotiations with the inmates that led to the release of the officer who has the rank of First Lieutenant.
Meanwhile, the families of inmates held a sit-in outside the mosque of the Bekaa town of Majdal Anjar to protest the injury of the prisoner, NNA reported.
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