It is reported that in one of the prison campuses there was a fight between two rival gangs. As a result, the fire was opened, the building lit up with the prisoners, the firemen managed to extinguish the fire. Security guards managed to catch only 29 prisoners, 78 people are now at large. Throughout the state, a plan with a "red" tag.
Law enforcers reported nine dead, 14 people were seriously injured, including five guards. The identities of escaped prisoners are now being established.
It is noteworthy that Brazil is the third largest in the world in terms of the number of prisoners, its prisons contain more than 700 thousand people. In the first place is traditionally the United States.
As reported in URA-Inform, seven teenagers were killed earlier and two were injured during a riot in a juvenile colony in the state of Paraiba in the northeast of Brazil.