Brazil: 42 inmates found dead in Amazonas prisons
By DW
28 May 2019 |
9:36 am
Dozens of inmates have been found dead in separate prisons in northern Brazil's Amazonas state. Authorities said the victims appeared to have been strangled to death.
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