Two NYC correction officers left bloodied, battered by inmates in one violent day on Rikers Island

Rikers Island inmates assaulted two correction officers in separate attacks Monday, leaving the guards with gruesome injuries to their face and hands, The Post has learned.

In the first attack, which happened at about 1 p.m. inside the George R. Vierno Center, an officer was wounded when he tried to break up an apparent gang fight between about 10 inmates that spilled out of a cell and onto the tier, law enforcement sources told The Post.

The inmates ignored the officer’s demand to stop brawling — even after he shot them with pepper spray, sources said.

Instead, they grabbed food pans and garbage cans and began beating each other — and the officer got struck with a flying food pan lid that left him with a nasty gash on his left hand.

“I was trying to prevent multiple inmates from fighting each other,” the officer told The Post on Monday. “A lot of other items were being thrown and one of them struck my hand and sliced it open.”

A response team busted in after several minutes, separated the inmates and led them away, sources said.