RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP) - At least 52 inmates were killed in a prison riot in northern Brazil on Monday (July 29) as rival gang factions fought each other, an official said.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
RIO DE JANEIRO - At least 52 inmates were killed in a prison riot in northern Brazil on Monday as rival gang factions fought each other, an official said.
Fighting broke out in the Altamira Regional Recovery Center at around 7:00 am , an official from the Para state government's penitentiary department told AFP. Footage broadcast by SBT Altamira purportedly showed thick black smoke rising from the prison compound and people sitting on the roof of a building.
Brazil has the world's third largest prison population after the United States and China, with 726,712 inmates as of June 2016, according to official statistics.
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