03-01-2017 14:15 via uk.news.yahoo.com

Brazil to transfer gang leaders after prison massacre

By Ueslei Marcelino MANAUS, Brazil (Reuters) - The Brazilian government will relocate gang leaders to other federal penitentiaries after the country's deadliest prison massacre in decades left 56 inmates dead in a scene of mutilated and burnt bodies this week, officials said on Tuesday. Justice Minister Alexandre de Moraes said authorities would move quickly to identify and transfer the gang bosses out of the crowded jail in the remote jungle state of Amazonas where the riot occurred on Monday.
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