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Cardinal taken hostage

Wednesday 16 March 1994 00:02 GMT
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Inmates seized the Roman Catholic Cardinal Aloisio Lorscheider and 17 other people in a prison mutiny in Fortaleza, north-east Brazil, AP reports from Rio de Janeiro. At least two policemen were injured and two inmates may have been hurt.

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