Prisoners try to contact relatives after a rebellion at Brazil's Colonia Agroindustrial prison | AP

SAO PAULO: At least nine people were killed and 14 others wounded Monday in a prison riot in the central Brazilian state of Goias that ended in a blaze -- and the escape of more than 100 inmates, local media reported. At least 30 inmates killed and mutilated in Brazil prison Read more

Officials said the violence at the Colonia Agroindustrial prison in the Aparecida de Goiania complex erupted when inmates from one cellblock invaded three others where prisoners from rival gangs are housed. Firefighters were able to put the blaze out while military police told G1 they had so far recaptured 29 of the 106 inmates who escaped, and quelled the riot. Nearly 130 inmates fled during the violence but returned voluntarily when the riot ended
An apparent gang riot at Colonia Agroindustrial prison in Goiânia, Brazil, results in nine deaths and 14 inmates injured. Authorities report 233 prisoners escaped but now only 95 prisoners remain at large.