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Saturday, April 17, 2010

Officers hurt removing Oakington immigration detainees

Officers hurt removing Oakington immigration detainees

Six security staff and a police officer were hurt in an operation to remove 60 detainees from an immigration unit in Cambridgeshire following a disturbance.



Trouble broke out at the Oakington removal centre after a 40-year-old detainee died on Thursday morning.

A police negotiator was called in to talk with detainees before officers removed what the Home Office described as "ringleaders" on Friday night.

The injuries to the seven officers were described as "minor".

The detainees removed from the centre are being transferred to prisons.

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