RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - At least one inmate was killed when members of different Brazilian drug gangs clashed at a northeastern prison overnight, authorities said on Thursday, part of a surge in gang violence in prisons that has killed around 140 in less than three weeks.
Prisoners fought, burnt mattresses and ripped down part of the roof in one of the blocks of the Caico prison in the state of Rio Grande do Norte before being suppressed by guards, a spokesperson for the state's security secretariat said.
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