No end to Brazil hostage crisis
More than 200 hostages have spent a third night in the hands of prisoners who seized control of a jail in Brazil. Officials have agreed to the inmates’ main demand – the return to the jail of a gang leader – but under conditions which they appear unlikely to accept. Ednildo de Souza was taken to another prison after briefly escaping. He is accused of organising another riot in April in which 14 inmates were killed. Full Story