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CCTV footage shows violent skirmishes taking place between inmates for more than a minute before guards intervene brandishing tasers. Some 30 inmates were in the room at the time.
It is unclear from the video what caused the frenzied fighting, which saw one man knocked unconscious with a single punch and another shanked in the back.
"These data ... are simply shocking. And we don't believe we are anywhere near counting all of the victims," IOM Director General William Lacy Swing said in a statement. "We are past the time for counting. We must act to make migration legal, safe and secure for all."
The 2016 total of 7,495 deaths compares with 5,740 last year and 5,267 in 2014. IOM, which has collated data on migrant deaths for its Missing Migrants Project since 2013, said the increase was largely due to better research methods.

Law enforcement officers are seen as the search for suspects is conducted near the airport perimeter following a shooting incident at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, U.S. January 6, 2017.
Santiago-Ruiz, 26, who killed at least five people and wounded eight during a shooting rampage at Fort Lauderdale Airport in Florida on Friday, "lost his mind" in Iraq, his aunt has said.
Maria Ruiz Rivera told NJ.com that her nephew, who was born in New Jersey and living in Alaska, was hospitalized for mental health issues after returning from Iraq, where he was on tour with the Puerto Rico National Guard from April 2010 to February 2011.
Ruiz Rivera said he appeared to be doing well, particularly following the recent birth of his son. However, she said that "he lost his mind in Iraq."
The typo in question transformed the word 'bigger' into the N-word, sparking a Twitter frenzy.
Yahoo did not do themselves any favors by allowing the offending tweet to remain live for a full 20 minutes before taking it down and issuing an apology.
Fresh off reports that the FBI never even accessed the DNC's computers before it accused Russia of hacking, John McAfee the founder of world famous McAfee anti-virus has delivered a devastating rebuke to the claims being made against Russia in mainstream media.
Accusations that that the Kremlin hacked into the DNC's servers in an effort to defeat Hillary Clinton are totally ridiculous, McAfee said in an interview with RT.
The cyber security expert deconstructed point-by-point the DHS/FBI "Grizzly Steppe report" purporting to document Russia's hacking. McAfee was very confident no state-run hacking operation - certainly not one run by Russia - would make the incredibly stupid and obvious mistakes alleged in the report, such as using a Russian IP address and Russian language.
On Friday, federal officials with the US Attorney's Office for the District of Delaware, the FBI, and the US Justice Department's civil rights division told the family of Jeremy McDole, the man killed by Wilmington police, that evidence does not indicate the officers willfully used excessive force in shooting McDole.
"The Justice Department announced today that there is insufficient evidence to pursue federal criminal civil rights charges against the Wilmington Police Department (WPD) Corporals involved in the fatal shooting of 28-year-old paraplegic Jeremy McDole on Sept. 23, 2015," the US attorney's office said in a release, according to the News Journal.
The encounter between police and McDole, 28, was caught on cellphone video by a witness, eliciting outrage in Wilmington and beyond. Police arrived on the scene after a 911 call claiming an African-American man in a wheelchair was suffering from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. In a lawsuit filed against the city of Wilmington, McDole's family said that McDole was robbed of his wallet and then shot, and that the thief or an accomplice called police claiming a self-inflicted gunshot was to blame for McDole's condition.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) released the reporton Friday titled "Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US elections."
Spain's Valencia region reportedly adopted a boycott against Israel as its official policy.
A vote on Israel at the Provincial Council of Valencia, a semi-autonomous region with over 250 municipalities and 2.5 million inhabitants, took place during a general assembly on Dec. 29, according to the local faction of the far-left party València en Comú, which submitted the motion with other far-left factions.
"Today the Provincial Council of Valencia declared itself a free space from Israeli apartheid," a party spokesman wrote on its official Facebook page.
The surgery was scheduled at St. Joseph's Hospital in Paterson, but an administrator canceled the operation because of the hospital's religious affiliation.
A lawsuit filed on Thursday claims that a Catholic hospital denied a transgender man a hysterectomy due to ethical and religious directives from the US Conference of Bishops. The man, Jionni Conforti alleges that doing so violated his patient's bill of rights that states hospitals will provide medical services regardless of "gender identity or question."
In June 2015, Jionni Conforti went to St. Joseph's Wayne in New Jersey to schedule his hysterectomy. The head nurse in charge of surgery there "assured" him that there would be no issues having the procedure at either the Wayne hospital or its other location in Paterson.
The procedure was deemed "medically necessary" to treat Conforti, who was diagnosed with gender dysphoria in 2014, court documents said. He had "long struggled with depression and anxiety rooted in the need to align himself with his true sex."














Comment: Interesting history. Is it possible that the shooter is another mind-controlled patsy? He reportedly told the FBI in October that the government was controlling his mind and forcing him to watch ISIS videos online. It would be foolish to discount his words considering the history of the US government creating mind-controlled assassins:
- Who mind-programmed Sirhan Sirhan? The story behind the RFK assassin
- Moussaoui - Mind Programmed Patsy
- Were The Boston Marathon Bombers 'Mind Controlled'?
- Sandy Hook mind-controlled patsy Lanza called radio station to talk about crazed chimp 'Travis' three days before massacre
- Attorney Haskell Blows Whistle on Underwear Bomber, Government Op
- Programmed to Kill? Dark Knight gunman: 'Evil therapist programmed me to commit mass slaughter at Aurora cinema'
This Sex Offender/Predator flyer photo for Santiago has been making the rounds, but it's probably just someone with the same name. The man in the photograph is not the same man involved in the shooting.