AFP via Getty Images An agent of the Military Police stands guard at the Alcacuz Penitentiary Center near Natal, Rio Grande do Norte state, northeastern Brazil. Members of a drug gang started the clash by invading a pavilion in the Alcaçuz prison where rivals rested, Rio Grande do Norte state’s security secretariat said on Sunday. More than a dozen inmates injured in the clash have been taken to hospitals near the Alcaçuz facility, the person said. As in riots across the country earlier this month, some inmates were decapitated and some bodies might have been partially burned, the person said. The police identified the six inmates who led the riot, G1 news website said, and they may be transferred to federal prisons.

Source: Huffington Post January 15, 2017 19:53 UTC