Locals joined riot police stopping riot in Manus Island detention centre

Locals joined riot police stopping riot in Manus Island detention centre

"MORE than 200 locals joined riot police and guards from security
contractor G4S in crushing Monday night’s uprising by asylum-seekers at
the Manus Island detention centre.
Civilian
residents of the Lombrum naval base, on which the detention facility is
located on Manus Island, said when security forces felt they were being
overwhelmed they asked locals to help repel several hundred rioters.
MANUS ISLAND CENTRE COULD CLOSE AFTER INVESTIGATION
This
account explains for the first time how there were such widespread
injuries, with 77 asylum seekers requiring treatment and one man — Reza
Berati, 23, who has been described as having regularly trained in boxing
at the centre, and was a riot leaders — dying later at hospital."
Excerpt from the Article