9 DEAD IN GANG WAR JAIL BATTLE

Local media said 106 inmates escaped during the riot, and officials had recaptured 29.

The reports said 127 other inmates fled during the violence but returned voluntarily.

Officers from the Special Penitentiary Operations Group regained control of the prison with the support of military police about TERROR PRISON: Bodies were burned NINE prisoners were killed and 14 injured as inmates from rival gangs battled at a prison in Brazil’s Goias state on Monday.

The violence at the Colonia Agroindustrial prison in the Aparecida de Goiania Complex erupted when inmates from one cellblock invaded three others where prisoners from rival gangs are housed.

The attackers set mattresses on fire when they entered the corridors and burned the bodies of those who were killed.

Firefighters were able to contain the fire.

Authorities confirmed the number of dead, but said identifications had not yet been made. Fled two hours after the riot started.

One year ago, a prison riot at the Anisio Jobim Penitentiary Complex in Amazonas state caused 56 deaths.

A day later, four prisoners were killed at the Puraqueuqara Prison Unit in the same state.

Thirty-three inmates died on January 6 in a prison riot in Roraima state, and 26 were killed on January 14 when inmates rebelled at Alcacuz prison in Rio Grande do Norte.