BRAZIL - Jail riots follow Brazil attacks

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Sunday, 14 May 2006,

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Jail

riots follow Brazil attacks

 

 

 

 

 

 

Riots have broken out in 18 prisons in the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo

after a wave of attacks on the streets left at least 30 people dead.

State officials said the riots were organised by the same

criminal faction - the First Command of the Capital (PCC) - that carried out

the attacks.

About 100 people have been taken hostage by prison inmates.

Armed criminals targeted officers in 55 attacks in the early hours of Saturday. Nineteen of

the dead were policemen.

The state governor insisted Sao Paulo would not bow

to organised crime.

Rebellion

The incident thought to have sparked the

attacks was Friday's transfer of about

600 prisoners to a maximum security unit.

It was organised to try to counter a co-ordinated rebellion

planned by the PCC for the weekend in a number of prisons in Sao Paulo state.

PCC leaders were being questioned on the

subject when the attacks started on Friday

night, targeting officers in police stations, mobile units, at their

homes or in bars.

The assailants used machine-guns and grenades. In one incident a

home-made bomb was thrown into a police station.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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