AKIPRESS.COM - Forty inmates escaped from jail in the eastern Brazilian city of Recife after a bomb was used to blow a hole in an external wall, authorities there say, reports BBC.

Most of the prisoners were captured after a manhunt through local streets lasting several hours, but two were killed and one remains at large.

It is the second mass breakout in the area in a week.

On Wednesday, 53 men escaped from another jail on the city outskirts and only 13 of them have since been found.

Social media images broadcast on Brazilian TV captured the moment when the explosion ripped through the external wall of the Frei Damiao de Bozanno prison.

Minutes before a man in the street walked up to the prison wall, left a package and moved quickly away.

Seconds after the blast, dozens of men are seen leaping through the hole in a cloud of dust.

They fanned out into the residential streets, many running into houses.