Gunmen kill six Palestinians in Jericho prison

JERICHO, West Bank, Aug 4 (Reuters) Palestinian gunmen dressed in police uniforms today broke into a prison in the West Bank city of Jericho and shot dead six Palestinian inmates, security sources said.

Five of the six dead Palestinians had been accused of killing two officials with President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction in the West Bank city of Nablus last year.

It was not immediately clear who was behind the attack at the Jericho prison run by Abbas's intelligence service.

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