G.O.G Posted January 15, 2017 Posted January 15, 2017 Brazilian police controlled a riot in a Natal prison on Sunday, adding at least 10 dead to the more than 100 that already left a war between criminal factions unleashed in prisons in 2017; The AFP reported. Security forces entered the prison in the morning, the mayor of the state of Rio Grande do Norte, fourteen hours after the rebellion began, which authorities suspect is the latest episode of a bloody struggle for control of drug trafficking in The prisons of the country. "The situation is absolutely controlled," Caio Bezerra, the district's public security secretary, told a news conference in which he said there were "over ten" inmates dead. While the group continues to work inside the compound, the official said that it was not possible to determine the final balance of the mutiny and that this information is likely to be reported during the afternoon. The rebellion that began on Saturday afternoon erupted after allegedly convicted prisoners from different criminal organizations managed to leave their halls to face brutally. Security forces surrounded the exterior of the jail and had to wait until sunrise Sunday to break into armored vehicles as detainees had cut off light and obtained heavy weapons. The coordinator of the state penitentiary administration, Zemilton Silva, said on the eve that there were decapitated bodies, a recurring symbol of the level of violence in the country's overcrowded prisons.
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