Inmates behind Brazil deadly prison riot transferred

Brazilian authorities had transferred forty-six inmates involved in one of Brazil's deadliest prison riots to other jails on Tuesday, an official said. At least 57 people were killed Monday when fighting broke out between rival drug gang factions in the Altamira Regional Recovery Center in the northern state of Para. 

Sixteen were decapitated in the hours-long battle, but most died in a fire. It was the second major eruption of violence to rock the country's severely overpopulated and deadly prison system in many months. Inmates involved in the fighting, including 16 leaders suspected of ordering the riot, were being transported Tuesday by bus or plane to detention facilities, including federal prisons, in state capital Belem, an official from the state government's penitentiary department said.