Three officers of the Penitentiary Police were intoxicated by smoke at the Beccaria juvenile prison in Milan after a mattress was set on fire in a cell.
The incident occurred shortly after midnight. The firefighters with four vehicles and a ladder truck intervened on the scene.
The policemen also sustained bruises .
At Christmas, seven prisoners had escaped from the same institution: they were all captured or returned after a few days.
(Unioneonline/ss)
