30 hurt in juvenile prison fight

SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 2012
30 hurt in juvenile prison fight

Some 30 juveniles were injured - three seriously - after a group of Suphan Buri youngsters remanded at the Ratchaburi Juvenile Centre brawled with another group from Ratchaburi and Prachuap Khiri Khan yesterday evening.

Muang Ratchaburi police inspector Lt-Colonel Thawat Kenda said police rushed to break up the fight, which took place at the centre’s training facility at around 5pm. Most of those injured sustained bruises and head injuries. Police had to send three seriously injured youths to Ratchaburi Hospital. 

Police said the two groups had a row a week ago, for which officials at the centre punished the group from Ratchaburi and Prachuap Khiri Khan. The two groups ran into each other again yesterday afternoon, sparking a brief fistfight, and again after dinner, resulting in a more serious brawl, which became too big for centre officials to control, prompting