Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq announced that the riot at Roumieh prison, staged by Islamist inmates on Friday, is over, reported As Safir newspaper on Saturday.

He told the daily that the situation at the facility “was back to normal and that the officers who were taken hostage by the rioters have been released.”

A count of the prisoners was made and they have since been returned to their cells, continued the minister.

Security sources told As Safir meanwhile that the riot began when Islamist inmates, held in block D, managed to steal the keys of the prison from an officer.

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