April 15 2005 at 09:47AM
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Baghdad - The murder of a prisoner at a United States-run Iraqi prison triggered a fight between detainees that left 12 injured, the second riot at the jail in two weeks, the US military said on Friday.
The fight broke out on Thursday night and was confined to detainees at Camp Bucca just outside the port city of Umm Qasr, the military said in a statement.
"The guards regained control of the compound and immediately began rendering medical treatment to 12 other detainees who were injured during the fight," said the statement.
"The fight was confined between the detainees in one compound and was not directed at US forces."
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It said that the remains of the murdered prisoner would be handed over to the Iraqi government and then returned to the family after the completion of an autopsy.
The incident comes just two weeks after 12 prisoners and four US guards were wounded in a riot in which detainees burned tents and hurled rocks at Camp Bucca, which is the country's largest US-run detention facility with more than 6 000 inmates.
The International Committee of the Red Cross has called for investigation into the incident, which an aide to Moqtada Sadr said broke out when one of the detained partisans of the radical Shi'a cleric was denied medical treatment.
Camp Bucca was the scene of another riot at the end of January that left four dead and six injured. - Sapa-AFP
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