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Inmates Beheaded in Brazil Jail Riot, 60 Killed

Inmates Beheaded in Brazil Jail Riot, 60 Killed
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Rioting inmates in Brazil decapitated and brutally assaulted their rivals, killing at least 60, when fighting erupted between two gangs at a prison in the Amazon region, officials said Monday.

Inmates Beheaded in Brazil Jail Riot, 60 Killed

The 17-hour riot broke out Sunday afternoon and lasted through the night at a prison on the outskirts of Manaus, the capital of Amazonas state, said state public security secretary Sergio Fontes.

He called it "the biggest massacre" ever committed at a prison in the state -- and it ranks among the most deadly of numerous prison riots across Latin America in the past decade.

Bloodied and burned bodies were stacked in a concrete prison yard and piled in carts, said an AFP photographer at the scene.

Outside, heavily armed police hunted for dozens of inmates who escaped through a series of tunnels discovered at the Anisio Jobim penitentiary complex.

Fontes said 16 tunnels were discovered. In all, 87 inmates escaped, authorities said.

Forty have been recaptured so far, the state security secretariat told AFP.

Anguished relatives of inmates meanwhile waited outside the prison for news of their family members. Authorities have not yet released the names of those killed.

Police finally restored order at the prison on Monday morning, freeing 12 guards who had been taken hostage, Fontes said.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team

 

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