Civil unrest in the Maldives breaks out after a prisoner is killed by guards.
On Saturday September 20, 2003 civil unrest broke out in Malé, the capital city of the Maldives. This unrest was provoked by the death of Hassan Evan Naseem at Maafushi Prison – located on a separate inhabited island – and the subsequent shooting at the same prison, that killed 3 and injured 17 others.
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From the BBC News channel.
Sources and further reading: Wikipedia — 2003 Maldives civil unrest (CC BY-SA). Images: Wikimedia Commons.
