FROM
CUBA
Death toll in prison riot rises to 5
PLACETAS, Cuba - May 26 (María
Elena Alpízar, Grupo Decoro / www.cubanet.org)
- A fifth prisoner has died as a result
of a riot April 5 in the Combinado del Este
prison in the capital.
The victim was identified as Lázaro
Echeverría González, 27, who
died this week in the Naval hospital from
burns suffered during the riot. Another
six prisoners remain in the hospital, according
to Elizardo Sánchez Santa Cruz of
the Cuban Commission on Human Rights and
National Reconciliation.
There was been no public comment from government
officials on the riot, the second to occur
this year at the prison. There was a similar
outbreak March 19.
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