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With smoke billowing into the night sky, this video shows the moment a protesting inmate set his clothes on fire on a prison roof.
The lag climbed on to the roof of HMP Guys Marsh in Shaftesbury, Dorset last night, stripped down to a second pair of clothes and started the blaze.
Twenty firemen rushed to put out the flames as around 60 prisoners were evacuated from their cells and and taken to a 'secure zone' overnight. The drunken inmate was protesting against changes to the prison regime, according to the BBC.
It is not clear how the inmate illegally got drunk or how he got on to the top of the roof.
Prison Officers Association spokesman Glyn Travis said: 'I am not sure why this man has taken this action and certainly we don't condone it and what we do try to do is encourage them to register their complaints through the proper channels.