(Reuters File Photo) Riot police walks past the main entrance of Anisio Jobim prison in Manaus, Brazil. (Reuters File Photo)Brazil’s government has ordered the armed forces to help secure the country’s overcrowded jails as police fought to separate rival gangs of inmates in one prison following a massacre. Inmates climbed on the roof and set up barriers of furniture in a northeastern jail inhabited by warring rival drug gangs vowing to behead each other. Experts say the violence is part of a war between drug gangs battling for control of the cocaine trade in Brazil, a key trafficking route to Europe. Gathered outside the jail, prisoners’ relatives said members of Crime Syndicate were trying to break into a prison block to attack PCC members.

Source: Indian Express January 18, 2017 02:47 UTC