A clash between rival gangs left at least 41 people dead Tuesday at a women’s prison near the Honduran capital, police said.
At least “41 people died”, according to a first estimate, in a brawl that took place in this prison located 25 km north of the capital Tegucigalpa, police spokesman Edgardo Barahona told AFP.
Deputy Security Minister Julissa Villanueva announced on Twitter an “emergency situation”, denouncing “acts of vandalism”.
The president of the detainees’ families, Delma Ordoñez, told local media that members of a women’s group had set fire to the cell of a rival gang.
The building where the victims perished “is completely destroyed, it has been reduced to ashes,” she said, adding that the prison had some 900 women.
Many members of the police and the army were deployed around the prison where relatives of the detainees also thronged in search of information, noted an AFP journalist.
20/06/2023 22:25:38 – Tegucigalpa (AFP) – © 2023 AFP
