Navy Cmdr Robert Durand said from the isolated base in southeast Cuba that the ballooning number of hunger strikers was an "attention-getting" move that may be related to melee at the detention center earlier this month, the Ap reports.
The hunger strike began in August to protest the detainees' indefinite confinement. It had dwindled to just three earlier this year.
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