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Toll rises in Brazil gang clashes

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Monday 15 May 2006, 23:27 Makka Time, 20:27 GMT   

At least 81 people are now known to have died and 79 wounded in four days of attacks by gangsters in the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo.

Sao Paulo state government officials reported at least 100 separate attacks on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, leaving 31 policemen, eight prison guards and four civilians dead. The others killed were suspected gunmen killed by police.

The bloodshed was unleashed by the First Command of the Capital (PCC in Portuguese) gang in retaliation for the transfer of imprisoned gang members to a remote prison.

Prisoners have also rioted in 36 penitentiaries, the government security office said.

Police say the violence was launched by the PCC, one of the most powerful of Brazil's organised crime operations, after the authorities transferred 765 prisoners to a new penitentiary 620km from the capital.

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