Violence erupted when members of one gang burst into an area housing a rival group and shot at them. Read more at straitstimes.com.
TEGUCIGALPA - A vicious battle with guns and fire left at least 46 women dead in a women’s jail in Honduras, a country with a particularly high rate of prison violence and more than 1,000 inmate deaths in 20 years.
According to police operations director Juan Rochez, the attackers came armed with “more than 21 firearms” and grenades. Eleven suspects have been identified. “I don’t know if my daughter was shot or stabbed,” local media quoted Olga Castro, mother of 44-year-old Jenny Patricia Castro, as saying. She subsequently claimed Tuesday’s violence was “an attack on the government” for the actions it has taken.More On This TopicHonduras is a country wracked by corruption and gangs that have infiltrated even the top levels of government.
“This has become a monster with a thousand heads which is hard to combat,” he said, with the country’s prisons transformed into “universities of crime.”Honduras is also a major transit country for Colombian cocaine and other narcotics headed mainly to the United States.
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