Brazilian prison riot leaves at least 30 dead

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REUTERS , RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL
Thursday, Jun 03, 2004,Page 7

Inmates at a Rio de Janeiro prison killed at least 30 people, beheading half of them, in three days of gang war anarchy that marked the worst jail violence in Brazil in more than 10 years, police said on Tuesday.

They said 15 decapitated bodies were found in the Benfica prison, which opened only a month ago, in an overnight search after the rioting ended late on Monday. Many corpses were charred.

"It was a truly horrific scene ... There were bodies dumped in garbage containers, heads, body parts," said Rio state lawmaker Geraldo Moreira, who visited the prison.

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