Sri Lanka boosts prison security after riot kills one

Sri Lanka tightened security across its prisons ​on Sunday after a riot left one person dead and six injured, ‌an official said, as the nation struggles to manage its overcrowded jails.

The latest unrest came almost a month after another prison riot in the same region, in which 10 guards and 21 inmates were killed

Inmates destroyed multiple buildings inside Mahara Prison, just outside the capital Colombo, police said.

Sri Lanka deployed hundreds of troops and elite commandos on Sunday to contain riots at an overcrowded prison in which an inmate was killed and six others wounded, police said. Deputy police inspector-general Sanjeewa Medawatte said the situation was under control after inmates destroyed multiple buildings on Saturday