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Inmates beheaded in Brazil jail riot, 60 killed, 87 escaped

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02.01.2017

Manaus (Brazil) (AFP) - 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.

The 17-hour riot broke out 1.1.2017 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.

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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.

Read full article at https://www.yahoo.com/news/more-50-killed-brazil-prison-riot-reports-151615632.html

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