BISHKEK, November 4 (RIA Novosti) - The death toll of the riots in a penal colony outside Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan's capital, November 1 has risen to five, the republic's penitentiary service said Friday.
"A inmate wounded in the November 1 events has died," the head of the service, Kapar Mukeyev, said.
Earlier, the service put the death toll at four.
Rioting in Kyrgyz penitentiaries began in late October when inmates at a high-security penal colony attacked inspectors killing the chief of the penitentiary service, a lawmaker and his assistants.
After that, a wave of inmate uprisings swept Kyrgyz prisons. Riots reached their peak November 1 when prisoners found out police were going to move criminal boss Aziz Batukayev.
