Two One-Legged Prisoners Break Out Of Jail

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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (Reuters) - Two one-legged inmates were among 26 prisoners who scaled walls to break out of an overcrowded jail in the Brazilian (news - web sites) city of Niteroi, authorities said Tuesday.

A spokeswoman with the Rio de Janeiro state Security Secretariat said police only managed to recapture 10 of the 26 inmates, including one of the disabled prisoners, in the center of the city, which lies just across the bay from Rio de Janeiro.

In Monday's jailbreak, the inmates sawed metal bars on the windows of two cells in the police detention center, used a rope to get to the ground and then jumped a backyard wall. They exchanged pistol fire with one police officer and then fled.

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