Three people were confirmed dead and 23 others injured in two prison riots in Sri Lanka, a senior official said on Friday, as unrest continued across the island nation’s overcrowded prison system. Public Security Minister Ananda Wijepala told parliament that the riot began late Thursday, when one prisoner was killed and 10 others were injured at Colombo’s New Magazine Prison. A ​second riot at Kuruwita prison, about 80 km (50 miles) from the capital, ⁠left two prisoners dead and 14 injured. Police contained the unrest at an open prison in Negombo, about 40 km (25 miles) from Colombo, after firing at it. One inmate died and several others were injured in a riot last weekend at a prison in Mahara, about 14 km from ⁠Colombo over ​the weekend.