(Adds description of injuries)
Three immigrants are to be urgently taken to Court following a riot at Safi Detention Centre this morning during which two Detention Service officers and a soldier were slightly injured.
The riot saw some 500 migrants leave their compound as officers of the Detention Service were pelted with stones. Equipment in the detention compound, including an education unit, was destroyed. The migrants were contained before they escaped from Safi Barracks, within which their compound is located.
Informed sources said a soldier and a Detention Service officer suffered a blow to their head with a hard object. The other Detention Service officer had bleach thrown at him.
The riot was brought under control as police and AFM reinforcements were called in.
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