MORE than 200 locals joined riot
police and guards from security contractor G4S in crushing Monday
night’s uprising by asylum-seekers at the Manus Island detention centre.
Civilian residents of the Lombrum naval base, on which the detention facility is located on Manus Island, said when security forces felt they were being overwhelmed they asked locals to help repel several hundred rioters.
MANUS ISLAND CENTRE COULD CLOSE AFTER INVESTIGATION
This account explains for the first time how
there were such widespread injuries, with 77 asylum seekers requiring
treatment and one man — Reza Berati,
23, who has been described as having regularly trained in boxing at the
centre, and was a riot leaders — dying later at hospital.
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