Australian immigration camp: Standoff ends at detention centre

A standoff between dissenting prisoners and authorities at a remote detainment centre for refuge seekers in the Indian Ocean finished on Tuesday, after government police arrived to end over a day of distress that incited guards to escape the office and left parts of the compound seriously damaged, authorities said.

Most prisoners cooperated with police moderators at the detainment centre on the Australian part of Christmas Island, yet authorities used “some power” against a center group of agigators who had build blockades and had warned to utilize weapons, the immigrant office said in an announcement.

Australian immigration camp: Standoff ends at detention centre

Five prisoners were being treated with for wounds or therapeutic conditions, however none were life-threatening, the division said. A review of the effect to the office was in progress, however a few zones seemed, by all accounts, to be extremely harmed. Prisoners were being held in undamaged parts of the compound.

The turmoil broke out on Monday taking after the demise of a refuge seeker who got away from the office. The man’s body was found on Sunday at the base of a precipice on the island. The reason for his passing is under scrutiny.

Immigration officials say a little group of Iranian migrants arranged a peaceful protest taking after the refuge seeker’s demise, yet different prisoners then started harming the property, lighting a few little flames and inciting guard to retreat.

Those were involved in the unrest were not believed to be asylum seekers, however, detainees who are being held at the facility due to their visas being cancelled, the immigration officials said.

Last year, Australia strengthened the power it has to cancel visas, there by it is mandatory to do so if a person has been sentenced to at least a year in jail.