25 dead following reported riot in women’s prison in Honduras

25 dead following reported riot in women’s prison in Honduras

25 dead following reported riot in women’s prison in Honduras

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras – Honduran authorities have found 25 charred our bodies in a ladies’s jail, a spokesperson from the general public prosecutors’ workplace mentioned on Tuesday after a reported jail riot.

Authorities are working to establish the our bodies, spokesperson Yuri Mora mentioned, amid native media studies {that a} riot had damaged out within the Centro Femenino de Adaptación Social (CEFAS) jail, a ladies’s penitentiary round 20 kilometers from the capital metropolis Tegucigalpa.

There is a historical past of lethal jail incidents in Honduras, with 18 inmates reportedly killed in a gang combat in a penitentiary in 2019, and over 350 dying in a hearth in 2012. — Reuters

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