Image copyright AFP Image caption Prisoners were seen on the roof of Alcacuz prison

At least 10 prisoners have been killed in fighting between rival gangs at the largest prison in the north-eastern Brazilian city of Natal, police say. At least three killed in new Brazil prison beheadings

Handout picture taken on January 14, 2017 of the Alcacuz Penitentiary Center near Natal, Rio Grande do Norte state, north-eastern Brazil showing three severed heads of inmates decapitated during a prison riot. SÃO PAULO—At least 26 inmates were killed in Brazil’s third prison riot this year, amid a continuing battle between drug gangs. “There are at least three inmates dead because we were able to see their heads,” state prisons manager Zemilton Silva told local media. Fighting between rival gangs in a prison in northern Brazil has reportedly left at least 10 inmates dead, three of them beheaded, in the latest in a series of massacres in the country’s jails.
At least 10 people are killed in a prison riot between rival gangs in Natal, Brazil.