Inmates armed with makeshift knives have ended their four-day uprising at a prison in Brazil’s remote Amazon jungle and released 207 hostages.

Inmates at a prison in Brazil’s remote Amazon jungle today refused to release their 207 hostages even though authorities were prepared to meet their principal demand by returning their escaped leader from another prison.

THE crime was shocking by any standard a family of three bound, drugged and shot in the head at close range in their beds.