52 inmates die during terrifying prison riot in Brazil

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52 inmates die during terrifying prison riot in Brazil






No fewer than 52 inmates were killed in a prison riot in northern Brazil today as rival gang factions fought each other.
 
Sixteen of the dead were decapitated in the second major eruption of violence to rock the country’s severely overpopulated and deadly prison system in as many months. Fighting broke out in the Altamira Regional Recovery Center at around 7:00 am (1000 GMT), an official from the Para state government’s penitentiary department told AFP.
 
Two guards were taken hostage during the hours-long clashes, which were brought under control at around midday. They were eventually freed.  Brazilian TV stations showed footage of thick black smoke rising from the prison compound and people sitting on the roof of a building.  
 
Other images showed flames inside a building that almost reached the ceiling and people, apparently prisoners, sitting on the ground outside. “It is likely that many detainees died from asphyxiation (from smoke),” the government official said, adding the death toll could rise.  
 
Around 300 prisoners were being held at the jail, the official said, which reportedly has a capacity for 200.
 
An outbreak of violence in the same prison in September 2018 left at least seven inmates dead. Guards had apparently foiled an attempted prison escape. In May this year, at least 55 prisoners were killed in several jails in the neighboring state of Amazonas in violence also blamed on an apparent drug trafficking gang dispute.

by Linda Ikeji at 29/07

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Brazil prisoners filmed playing football with decapitated heads of rival gangs during bloody prison clash (graphic photo/video)




 
At least 57 inmates were killed in a bloody prison clash between gang members in Brazil. Footage from the Brazillian prison has now shown inmates playing football with the heads of rival gang members they killed.
 
A fight broke out at the Altamira Regional Recovery Center in Brazil's northern Pará state at around 7am Monday, July 29 (read here). According to local reports, gang members from Block A stormed Block B, which was occupied by a rival group, locked a room and set it on fire, causing many prisoners to die of asphyxiation.
 
57 prisoners died in all and 16 of them were beheaded.
 
During the 5-hour riot, some prioners - about 6 - were filmed on the roof of the jail, playing football with the bloody decapitated head of rival inmates. 
 

 
The footage emerged hours after the riot had been calmed. Military police were called to the scene and negotiated with the inmates who had barricaded themselves in a cell block. 
 
The riot comes exactly two months after 55 people were confirmed dead in a riot in the northern Amazonas state of Brazil in May. Monday's riot marked the second largest prison massacre in 2019.  
 
Watch the video below.
 
 

In Brazil, a mutiny exploded in a prison, there were 56 dead including 12 beheaded. They then played football with their heads. pic.twitter.com/2vqkrQsuE3
— I.N.G (@fvraz_) July 30, 2019

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