Brazil, A war between the criminal factions FDN (Northern Family) and PCC (First Command of the Capital) resulted in dozens of deaths yesterday in Manaus, Brazil.

The Secretary of State for Penitentiary Administration (SEAP) does not confirm the figures, but sources of the Military Police (PM) report that about 60 inmates were killed. Most members of the CCP.

Authorities have not yet entered the premises and consequently have not taken control of the unit. According to the PM, several servers were taken hostage, among them doctors and nurses.

Some would have been released. All members of the corporation were called upon to act in an attempt to regain control of COMPAJ.

They are working agents of ROCAM, FERA of the Civil Police and Shock.

The Amazonas Public Security Secretariat (SSP-AM) did not release official figures on the number of deaths.

At the Antônio Trindade Criminal Institute (Ipat), Km 8 of BR-174, several prisoners fled in the afternoon of Sunday.

Some have already been recaptured. Military Police sources say more than 130 detainees fled the unit.