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(*) Brazil Sao Paulo: 3 prisoners were executed and at least 5 more people were wounded in a fight that started in a southern Brazilian jail, sources said.

prisoner of the jail in the city of Cascavel, took at least 2 agents and many other prisoners captive in the outbreak, added military police Capt Ricardo Pinto. He said compromising for good and safe environment in the jail were still in process next 12 hours later.

detainee set some items on fire and were using metal poles to cause harm to the 928-bed lockup that contain more than 1,000 prisoners at the time. Sources first informed that 2 men were execute, but later well-informed of a 3rd prisoner who was killed the same way. The 3 men were not recognize.

The fight started prior sunrise when a lockup guard was pick up amid breakfast, Pinto added.

Dozens of the detainees crawled onto the building's rooftop, with their faces hidden with white fabric. Local media pictures disclosed at least thirty attacking inmates screaming while they beat men held with ropes around their necks, or whose hands were tied behind them. 

The fighting prisoners shake banners decorate with the label PCC for a criminal lockup gang found in the 1990s.

Jairo Ferreira, a lawyer for the jail guards' union, informed local news site CGN that at one point the prisoners put the executed head of one casualty on the lap of a warden who was at the beginning held captive and later released.

Relatives visiting at the jail to arrive inmates waited outside as night fell, trying to get news about their loved ones.

Ferreira added the prisoners rampage to order good food and medical care in the lockup.

Police Capt. Pinto added the voilent may also have been allied to the freshly convictions of 2 prisoners.