Twenty-two prisoners were injured after a wall of a barrack in Bhind district jail of Madhya Pradesh collapsed Saturday morning, an official said.
Bhind Superintendent of Police Manoj Kumar Singh told PTI that the wall of barrack number 6 caved in around 5.10 am and there were 255 prisoners inside the prison at the time of the incident.
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The police officer further said that the jail building was quite old and the wall might have collapsed as a result of incessant rains over the last couple of days.