CNN —
A deadly riot astatine a women’s situation successful Honduras led to astatine slightest 41 radical being killed, Public Ministry spokesperson Yuri Mora told CNN en Español.
The evident situation riot broke retired Tuesay astatine the Centro Femenino de Adaptacion Social, a women’s penitentiary extracurricular the superior metropolis Tegucigalpa, and determination are fears the decease toll volition rise.
Mora said the decease toll could summation arsenic rescue teams proceed to work, adding that immoderate of the deaths were the effect of burns portion others had gunshot wounds.
The main assistance halfway successful Tegucigalpa has received respective injured people, helium said
A brawl is believed to person breached retired successful the situation successful the aboriginal hours of Tuesday betwixt rival gangs Barrio 18 and the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), Delma Ordonez, the president of an relation for prisoners’ families, told Reuters.
The state has a past of incidents astatine its prisons – criticized for being overcrowded places with poor conditions amid an summation of organized transgression Some 63 radical died successful a situation riot in 2003, and much than 300 radical died in a situation occurrence successful 2021.
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