Gang war in prison riot causes at least 56 deaths in the city of Manaus — MercoPress

A prison riot has left at least 56 dead, with decapitated bodies thrown over prison walls in the bloodiest violence in more than two decades in Brazil’s overcrowded penitentiary system, officials in the city of Manaus said on Monday.

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