"We are asking the US army to investigate the cause of the riot which happened at the detention center" Camp Bucca, Rana Sidani, spokeswoman for the ICRC, told AFP.
The US military announced early Tuesday that 12 Iraqi prisoners and four US prison guards were wounded when inmates rioted at Camp Bucca Friday, torching tents and hurling rocks in Iraq's largest US-run detention center
The riot at the desert camp in southern Iraq, where more than 6,000 prisoners are held, was first reported by radical Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr's movement and confirmed by the ICRC.
The US military had said initially it was unaware of the violence and only came forward with details after the ICRC revelations.
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