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| At least 33 inmates have been killed in a riot at a prison in the Amazon region of Brazil, officials have said. | At least 33 inmates have been killed in a riot at a prison in the Amazon region of Brazil, officials have said. |
| The incident occurred five days after 56 inmates were killed in a nearby state in the country’s worst prison massacre for more than two decades. | The incident occurred five days after 56 inmates were killed in a nearby state in the country’s worst prison massacre for more than two decades. |
| Few details were available about Friday’s uprising in Roraima state’s largest prison, where 10 people died in a fight between rival drug gangs last October. | |
| Security experts have predicted more violence in Brazil’s gang-controlled prison system after the massacre earlier this week in which inmates from one drug gang butchered those from a rival group. | |
| The top security official in Roraima, Uziel de Castro, blamed Friday’s violence on the São Paulo-based First Capital Command (PCC) drug gang, according to a report on the Estado de S.Paulo newspaper website. | |
| The majority of the 56 inmates killed at a prison in nearby Amazonas state earlier this week were from the PCC. They were killed by the North Family drug faction, believed to dominate the traffic of cocaine from Colombia and Peru in that region. | |
| The North Family is allied with the Rio de Janeiro-based Red Command drug gang, Brazil’s second most powerful faction after the PCC. |