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Brazil prison revolt frees 19 inmates
Apr 22, 2010, 23:48 GMT
Sao Paulo - Five heavily armed men stormed into a Brazilian prison and freed 19 inmates Thursday, police said.
The attackers forced their way into the jail in Palmital, around 400 kilometres from Sao Paulo, around 3 am. They overpowered two guards and locked them in a cell.
The action appeared to have been aimed at freeing a drug dealer.
'That's one of the possibilities, but we can't say with certainty yet that that was the motive for the attack. The investigation is ongoing,' Marcelo Armstrong Nunes, a police officer, told local media.
Police deployed a helicopter to search for the fugitives, capturing six and putting them back in jail.
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