A top Brazilian gang leader serving a prison sentence of more than 200 years was taken to hospital for tests on Tuesday, days after scores of members of his group escaped from a Paraguayan jail. Marcos Willians Herbas Camacho, nicknamed "Marcola," was taken by helicopter under heavy security to a hospital in the capital Brasilia, an AFP photographer witnessed. His hospital visit was confirmed by officials at the high-security federal prison where Marcola has been held since February 2019 after his transfer from a Sao Paulo jail. They did not elaborate on the type of tests carried out during his two-hour visit. Marcola, 51, is a leader of the First Capital Command (PCC), one of the country's most powerful criminal enterprises. He has been jailed since 1999. On Sunday, 76 inmates, most of them members of the PCC, broke out of a prison in Paraguay. The next day 26 members of a gang reportedly linked to the PCC escaped from a jail in Brazil's northwestern state of Acre. Police have recaptured several of the escaped inmates. jm/js/amj/jm