A group of 457 Myanmar civil society organisations have called in an open letter for Asean leaders to scrap the peace plan it agreed with the military and instead work with civilian leaders and a shadow government.

The government of conservative President Guillermo Lasso attributes prison violence to fights between gangs over control of territory and drug trafficking routes.

The order comes after the authorities detained scores of members of the Islamic group, accusing them of violence and anti-national activities.

From preliminary inquiries it appears that the girls were strangled with a scarf and hung from a tree after they were raped.

The move follows outbreaks of cartel violence across the country, with at least 20 convenience stores set alight in a night of unrest in the central states of Guanajuato and Jalisco last month.

Police say the man poured kerosene on the victim through her house window when she was asleep and set her on fire.

Seventeen prisoners have been moved to other jails after the incident for their protection, prisons agency says.

Police opened fire to break up the violence in the city of Ranchi in Jharkhand state but it was not clear if the two victims were killed by the police or by rioters.

Images aired on Palestine TV showed Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh's coffin nearly falling to the ground as police grabbed flags from the crowd around the procession.

Protesters angered by shortages of fuel, cooking gas and electricity defied the curfew to attack government figures, setting ablaze homes, shops and businesses belonging to ruling party lawmakers and provincial politicians.

Sri Lanka has suffered months of blackouts and dire shortages of food, fuel and medicines in its worst economic crisis since independence.

The social media company is temporarily allowing posts that call for death to Russian President Vladimir Putin or Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in countries including Russia, Ukraine and Poland.