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| Brazilian prison riot ends |
| By AFP |
| Published: 04/26/2004 |
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A riot at Brazil's Urso Branco prison ended last week after a week-long uprising that left nine inmates dead, police said. Rioters freed some 163 visiting family members they had taken as hostages, police spokesman Lehilson Guedes told AFP. Inmates at the prison in Porto Velho in Rondonia state in Brazil's Amazon region had butchered a fellow prisoner and thrown his body parts from the jail's roof. The inmates also hung the lifeless bodies of two inmates from the jail's roof and threatened to tear the bodies apart, police said. One day earlier the prisoners decapitated two fellow inmates before horrified onlookers and sliced one body to pieces before throwing it from the rooftop. A group of five inmates that managed to escape by jumping from a rooftop said there were at least four more bodies inside the prison, and that 10 more inmates had been tied up and were being threatened with execution, Guedez told AFP. The prisoners demand better living conditions in the overcrowded jail, built for 350 inmates but which currently holds 1400. The Government said that 30-40 prisoners would be transfered to other prisons, as the rioters demanded. |
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