The ensuing smoke and fire killed 41 girls. The riot appears to be the worst tragedy at a female detention center in the region since 2017, when girls at a shelter for troubled youths in Guatemala set fire to mattresses to protest rapes and other mistreatment at the badly overcrowded institution. Gangs often wield broad control inside the country’s prisons, where inmates often set their own rules and sell prohibited goods. “We will not back down,” Villanueva said in a televised address after the riot. WATCH: From prison to the frontlines - thousands of Russian convicts sent to fight in Ukraine Julissa Villanueva, head of the country’s prison system, suggested the riot started because of recent attempts by authorities to crack down on illicit activity inside prisons and called Tuesday’s violence a reaction to moves “we are taking against organized crime.” Most victims were burned but there also were reports of inmates shot at the prison in Tamara, about 30 miles (about 50 kilometers) northwest of the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa, said Yuri Mora, the spokesman for Honduras’ national police investigation agency.Īt least seven female inmates were being treated at a Tegucigalpa hospital for gunshot and knife wounds, employees there said. TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) - A riot Tuesday at a women’s prison in Honduras killed at least 41 women, most of them burned to death, in violence linked to gang activity, authorities said.
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