The bloodshed began when inmates of one wing broke into another at the Agricola de Monte Cristo prison in the Roraima state capital, Boa Vista. Prisons nationwide have been on alert since the rival gangs declared war, Roraima state Justice Secretary Uziel Castro said.Д«ut guards were caught by surprise on Sunday because the riot broke out during visiting hours - a traditional time of truce, he added. 'But they broke that alliance because both groups have a strategy to expand across Brazil,' she said. There were no immediate reports of casualties in the latest riot, which broke out in the psychiatric ward.Д«razilian sociologist Camila Nunes Dias said the PCC, based in Sao Paulo, and the CV, based in Rio, had split the drugs and arms trade for two decades. 'Several prisoners have escaped,' a police spokesman said. Television footage showed several wings in flames. 'There are thought to be eight people dead, but the bodies are burned and the medical authorities will have to confirm' the toll, a police spokesman said.ДЄ third riot broke out Monday evening at a prison in Sao Paulo, police said. We suspect a clash between rival factions,' a police official in the state capital, Porto Velho, told AFP. 'A group of inmates blocked their rivals in their cell and set it on fire. 'PCC's organized crime faction gave the order to kill all members of their rival faction in the CV in every prison across the country,' she said.ДЄnother riot broke out on Monday at a prison in the northwestern state of Rondonia, officials said. She blamed a war between the First Capital Command (PCC) and Red Command (CV), Brazil's biggest crime gangs.

'Seven bodies were found burned and three others beheaded.'

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