The World - News from March 14, 1985
Prison guards fired on Brazilian inmates brandishing makeshift knives, killing 11 of them in what officials called the bloodiest prison break in Sao Paulo history. Michel Temer, Sao Paulo state security secretary, said 15 convicts at the Sorocaba Prison, in the Sao Paulo suburbs, crawled through a tunnel dug under the main wall in an escape attempt. As they began scaling an outer fence, guards confronted them and opened fire, he said. Four reportedly escaped.
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