The World - News from June 3, 1985
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Guards killed eight prisoners and wounded eight when 19 inmates sought to flee from a prison in the Brazilian city of Campinas. The remaining three escaped. Meanwhile, in a jail in Belo Horizonte, 260 miles north of Rio de Janeiro, inmates strangled another cellmate, bringing to 16 the number of prisoners they have killed to protest against overcrowding and other poor living conditions.
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