Thirty three prisoners killed in Brazil jail riot, second major incident in a week

Rio de Janeiro: At last 33 inmates have been killed in a new prison uprising in the Amazon region of Brazil, officials said Friday, just five days after 56 inmates were slaughtered in a nearby state in the country`s worst prison massacre for more than two decades.

Details were murky about the latest uprising that took place early on Friday in Roraima state`s largest penitentiary. However, experts had predicted more violence in Brazil's gang-controlled prison system in the wake of the massacre earlier this week, which saw members of one drug gang butcher inmates from a rival criminal group.