Brazilian Prisoner Who Dug 230ft Long Tunnel Under His Cell's Toilet, Died Minutes He Returned To His Cell

Today the death of a Brazilian murderer who died following suffocating in a 230ft-long escape tunnel he dug himself from his prison cell toilet was reported.

The prisoner identified as Judson Cunha Evangelista, 26, had spent months carving the tunnel, and had managed to dig all the way past the perimeter wall of the jail in Boa Vista, northern Brazil.

However, shortly before he was able to dig himself out, he is believed to have suffered an acute lack of oxygen, and despite making it back to his cell, he died shortly after.

Dailymail.co.uk reported that the  officers were shocked as they discovered a hole which began underneath the toilet in Evangelista's cell in Wing 7 of the Monte Cristo penitentiary, the largest prison in Brazil's northern most state of Roraima.


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