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| Violence in multiple Brazil prisons leave over 55 dead: official |
| 2019-05-28 |
| [Aljazeera] More than 55 inmates have been found dead over the last two days in separate prisons in northern Brazil, authorities said on Monday. The majority of the victims was found in the Antonio Trindade Penal Institute near Manaus, the capital of Amazonas state, where the facilities in question are located. The Amazonas state prison agency said the prisoners found dead on Monday all showed signs of asphyxia. The federal government said it was sending reinforcements to boost security in the state's prisons. Later on Monday, a statement from the Amazonas state penitentiary department revised the number of deaths to 40 from an earlier 42 and said authorities had regained control of the four prisons. No other details were provided. Monday's clashes took place a day after 15 inmates were killed during riots at Manaus' Anisio Jobim Prison Complex, authorities said. Those clashes broke out about 11:00am (15:00 GMT) during visiting hours at the facility, located about 28km from Manaus. "It was a fight between the inmates. There had never been deaths during the visits," Colonel Marcos Vinicius Almeida told a news conference on Sunday. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #3 Ref #2:. An excellent short teaching point that will be shared later today. Thx. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2019-05-28 09:33 |
| #2 I was in this area of Brazil with a Brazilian family of 7 sisters. We were at a festival and noticed a bad guy casing one of the sisters and her boy friend who were seperated from the rest of us in the crowd and I started to go over to where they were but three of the sisters immediately cut me off and the other three went over and grabbed sister number 7 and the entire family left the festival immediately. I asked the one who spoke English why did everyone leave and she asked did you not see the rest of the suspects dangerous gang in tbe crowd ready to move in to assist him if there was confrontation? I had dangerously misunderstood the situation in this third world area that the 7 Brazilian sisters knew very well. This was an upper class family. They did not interact with the general third world population around tbem at all. It was just too dangerous in that Amazon part of Brazil. |
| Posted by: Varmint Splat1454 2019-05-28 09:20 |
| #1 Death by aphyxiation via what outsiders refer to the unusual Brazilian no weapon, non-striking, grappling form of fighting. Once you are in an inescapable, submissive hold you will pass out quickly from aphyxiation and you will die. |
| Posted by: Varmint Splat1454 2019-05-28 08:16 |