One per­son has been stabbed and killed at the Max­i­mum Se­cu­ri­ty Prison in Arou­ca as sus­pect­ed gang vi­o­lence broke out with­in prison walls.

Con­fir­ma­tion of the death came mo­ments ago from the po­lice how­ev­er no iden­ti­ty has yet been re­leased.

The Prison Ser­vice is yet to con­firm the killing nor has it re­leased a state­ment yet on the mat­ter.

A video cir­cu­lat­ing on­line from with­in the prison shows in­mates chas­ing an­oth­er at­tempt­ing to kick him. In an­oth­er video an in­mate was grabbed by a group and car­ried away.

Prison Of­fi­cers As­so­ci­a­tion Pres­i­dent Ger­ard Gor­don told Guardian Me­dia that he is still re­ceiv­ing in­for­ma­tion on this de­vel­op­ing sit­u­a­tion and could not con­firm if any of his of­fi­cers have been in­jured in the fra­cas. He said pre­lim­i­nary in­for­ma­tion is al­so sug­gest­ing it is gang war­fare.