里约热内卢12月26日电 当地时间25日下午，巴西朗多尼亚州一所监狱发生暴动，囚犯们用刀具挟持了200多名人质。

    暴动发生在朗多尼亚州府波多韦柳市的乌尔索布兰库国家监狱。国家公共安全部门负责人雷纳托·爱德华多·德索萨透露：“共有207人被挟持为人质，其中包括190名妇女和17名男性，他们都是来探视的囚犯家属。

    他表示，囚犯们说至少已有10名囚犯死于这次骚乱，但目前还没有见到死者尸体。

    囚犯们表示，他们愿意释放人质，前提是当局释放一个月前被转押至另一所监狱的他们的头目埃迪尼尔多·保拉·德索萨。

    这位公共安全部门的负责人说乌尔索布兰库监狱约1200名囚犯中的多数参加了这次暴动。大约有150名全副武装的警察已经包围了这座监狱。

    这座为关押350名囚犯而建的监狱目前关押了大约1200人。2004年4月，乌尔索布兰库监狱曾发生过骚乱，持续五天的骚乱造成14人死亡。

    Inmates at the Urso Branco prisonin Porto Velho, capital of Rondonia in northern Brazil, have taken more than 200 visitors hostage amid a riot which has raged since Sunday, military police said on Tuesday.

    The prisoners demanded their leader's return to the prison. Edinildo de Souza, alias Birrinha, was transferred last Thursday to the Nova Amore jail, 200 kilometers away.

    Birrinha was held responsible for a bloody riot in April 2004 that left 14 dead. He was accused of beheading four inmates. 　

    Military police spokesman Lenilson Guedez said state authorities had already agreed to return Birrinha, as long as inmates release their hostages.

    The prisoner are also demanding better conditions, an end to transfers out of the prison and visits by human rights monitors.

    They have also demanded a prosecutor they dislike be relieved of his duties but officials did not say if they planned to grant that request.

    Police said all the hostages were relatives of the inmates, adding that there was no confirmation of the inmates' claim that they have killed at least 10 other prisoners during the rebellion.

    A TV footage showed a group of inmates holding from the roof ofthe prison what they said were the bodies of two inmates wrapped in blankets.

    Urso Branco, built to hold 360 inmates, currently jails over 1,000.