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Watch Brazil’s prison break: 40 inmates blow up jail’s wall to escape
A CCTV camera has captured the moment 40 prisoners escape a jail in Brazil after blowing up an external wall and making a run for it
Updated on: Jan 28, 2016, 13:53:03 IST
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A CCTV camera has captured the moment 40 prisoners escape a jail in Brazil after blowing up an external wall and making a run for it.The incident was caught on CCTV at Frei Damiao de Bozanno prison in Pernambuco, on the outskirts of Recife in north-east Brazil.
The video has since been broadcast on Brazilian TV and shows the explosion ripping through an external wall of the jail.
Most of the prisoners were captured after a manhunt through local streets lasting several hours. However, two were killed and one remains at large.
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