BRASILIA: Inmates rioting for better facilities in a Brazilian jail killed four fellow prisoners, decapitating two of them, and took two guards hostage, officials said.

The uprising took place in the Cascavel state correctional center in the southern city of Parana that currently holds 1,140 imates, according to Elson Faxina, a state judicial spokesman.

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