84 Prisoners Escape Through Tunnel
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From Times Wire Reports
Eighty-four prisoners escaped from a maximum-security prison in northeastern Brazil through a 50-yard tunnel they dug to the jungle outside, police said. Only three of them were quickly recaptured.
The inmates burrowed under two buildings that housed inmates and beyond a prison wall topped with watchtowers.
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