Inmates in northern Afghanistan have killed two police officers they had taken hostage during a prison riot in which an inmate was shot dead, an Afghan security official says.
The riot erupted during a search for mobile phones, knives and other contraband, said General Faqir Mohammad Jawzjani, the police chief of northern Jawzjan province.
Five officers and 10 inmates were wounded in the melee.
The inmates managed to take two police officers and a criminal investigator hostage.
They later killed the two officers and set the investigator on fire, thinking he was a prosecutor.
He survived but is in critical condition, Jawzjani said, adding that local officials were trying to negotiate an end to the standoff.
The prison complex, located in the provincial capital Shebirghan, holds about 800 inmates in separate male and female lockups.
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