TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras: At least 41 people were killed on Tuesday (Jun 20) at a women's prison in Honduras, where violent clashes between rival gangs sparked a fire that tore through part of the facility, police said. The deadly unrest rocked the prison some 25km north of the capital Tegucigalpa, according
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras: At least 41 people were killed on Tuesday at a women's prison in Honduras, where violent clashes between rival gangs sparked a fire that tore through part of the facility, police said.
According to Delma Ordonez, who represents inmate relatives, members of a gang had entered the cell of a rival group and set it on fire.The CEFAS correctional facility in Tamara held some 900 inmates, said Ordonez. Most of the victims died in the fire, while some bodies were riddled with bullets, a spokesperson for the prosecutor's office, Yuri Mora, told AFP. An investigation was underway to determine which gang launched the initial attack, he added.
Along with neighbours El Salvador and Guatemala, Honduras forms Central America's so-called"triangle of death" plagued by the murderous gangs called"maras" that control drug trafficking and organised crime. Honduras is a major transit country for Colombian cocaine and other narcotics headed mainly to the United States.
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