What the records say
- When
- 9 Nov 2012
- Kind
- Riot
- Coordinates
- 6.92° N, 79.88° E
- Description
- 2012 prison riot in Colombo, Sri Lanka
2 sources record it
- Wikidata: riots, protests, strikes and revoltsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Welikada prison riot: 27 prisoners are killed by the Special Task Force during riots at the Welikada Prison, Colombo”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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