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DAMASCUS, Syria — Rioting at a prison near Syria’s capital killed at least nine inmates Saturday, according to a human-rights activist in phone contact with the prisoners.
Mohammed Abdullah, a Beirut-based Syrian activist, told The Associated Press that rioting inmates called him and informed him of the deaths, using a cellphone belonging to one of the guards they had taken hostage.
Abdullah said he lost contact with them by early evening, and it appeared the phone had been shut off. He said all of those killed were prisoners.
