MANAUS — Rioting inmates in Brazil decapitated and brutally assaulted their rivals, killing at least 60, when fighting erupted between two gangs at a prison in the Amazon region, officials said Monday. The 17-hour riot broke out on Sunday afternoon and lasted through the night at a prison on the outskirts of Manaus, the capital of Amazonas state, said state public security secretary Sergio Fontes. He called it "the biggest massacre" ever committed at a prison in the state. Bloodied and burned bodies were stacked in a concrete prison yard and piled in carts, an photographer at the scene said. Outside, heavily armed police hunted for inmates feared to have escaped through a series of tunnels discovered at the Anisio Jobim penitentiary complex. Fontes said 16 tunnels were discovered in all. He told journalists that authorities were still trying to determine whether any inmates had escaped. Brazilian news site G1 reported that more than 130 had escaped. Police were only able to restore ...
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