Death toll in group clash in prison rises to 57 in Brazil

In Brazil, the death toll in the group clash in a prison has risen to 57. Rival gang factions fought each other in the Altamira prison in the northern part of the country.

Prison officials said after the fight erupted between two groups, one group set the cell of another group on fire. Officials said, while many were



suffocated, 16 of the dead were decapitated.

Prison authorities said 46 inmates will be transferred to other prisons, 10 of which will go to stricter federal facilities. It was the latest violence to rock the country's overpopulated and deadly prison system.