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Brazil Hunts for Scores of Escaped Inmates

Most of the more than 180 prisoners who broke out during deadly prison riot are still at large

A manhunt for scores of escapees continued Tuesday after a 17-hour riot at a Brazilian prison on Sunday and Monday between gangs led to 60 deaths. The Manaus prison was filled to more than twice its intended capacity. Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images

SÃO PAULO—More than 100 escaped prisoners in Brazil were on the run Tuesday after breaking out during a bloody prison riot that left 60 inmates dead and sparked criticism of chronic overcrowding in the country’s jails.

As warring drug gangs in two prisons in the Amazonian city of Manaus stabbed, decapitated and dismembered fellow inmates during a 17-hour riot that ended Monday, 184 prisoners escaped. Many of them scrambled away through the dense rain forest surrounding the city on the Amazon river, according to police and...

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