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| Inmates tunnel out of prison in northeastern Brazil |
| By AP |
| Published: 08/12/2003 |
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The inmates fled through the tunnel from the Silvio Porto prison in Joao Pessoa, the capital of Paraiba state, 1,950 kilometers (1,200 miles) from Rio de Janeiro, an officer at the state's Public Security Office said. Police several hours later had recaptured one of the fugitives at a nearby beach. Policemen at two posts close to the end of the 50-meter-long (50-yards-long) tunnel outside the prison's walls, allegedly did not witness the escape that occurred before dawn. Another 41 inmates in the same prison wing did not to join the escape, the Security Office said. Prison rebellions and escapes are frequent in Brazil's notoriously overcrowded prisons. |
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