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Judi Lynn

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Thu Aug 1, 2019, 02:12 PM Aug 2019

Four Survivors of Altamiras Prison Massacre Killed during Transfer


President Bolsonaro said that "problems happen"

Aug.1.2019 12:50PM

FABIANO MAISONNAVE
GUSTAVO URIBE
Four survivors of the Altamira Prison massacre on Monday (29) were murdered during a transfer to another location. They were part of a group of 30 men who traveled in a jail truck to Belém, 829 km away.

At least 58 prisoners had already died at the Regional Recovery Center in Altamira, the biggest prison riot of the year - surpassing May in Manaus, which left 55 dead. Sixteen prisoners were beheaded on Monday.

In an interview, representatives of the Government of Pará, Helder Barbalho (MDB), said that the prisoners were killed by asphyxiation between 19h of Tuesday (30) and 1h of Wednesday. All the prisoners would be in plastic handcuffs, hands back and tied in pairs. The truck they were in is divided into four cells.

"The four were killed by asphyxiation, by mechanical strangulation," said Pará Public Security Secretary Uálame Machado. "There is evidence in the very shackles of body DNA, skin, hair that identify this."

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The secretary said that each of these cells has a camera that transmits images to headquarters, but that the system stopped transmitting during the deaths because it is a paved and bumpy stretch.

More:
https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/brazil/2019/08/four-survivors-of-altamiras-prison-massacre-killed-during-transfer.shtml
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