Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Honduras prison fire

  • Tegucigalpa - A prison fire in northern Honduras has left at least 377 inmates dead, authorities said late Wednesday, as inmates accused the guards of leaving them locked in their cells.
  • (Monsters and Critics)
  • Almost 300 die in Honduras prison fire Honduras has a shameful history of prison disasters, followed by promises of reform, and then more disasters. More than 100 inmates died in a 2004 prison fire, and 86 died in a 2003 prison riot.
  • (CNN)
  • What may be the deadliest prison fire in history tore through an overcrowded prison in Honduras overnight, killing nearly 400 inmates -- nearly half the facilitys population.
  • (ABC News)
  • Tegucigalpa, Honduras: Trapped inmates screamed from their cells as a fire swept through a Honduran prison, killing at least 300 inmates in one of the worlds deadliest fires in decades, authorities said on Wednesday.
  • (in.com)
  • MEXICO CITY -- A fire that broke out in an overcrowded Honduran prison left more than 300 inmates dead, a Cabinet minister said Wednesday, as investigators pulled one body after another from the charred facility.
  • (The Post and Courier)
  • At least 272 inmates were dead and the fate of 105 others was unknown Wednesday as families clamored to learn whether their loved ones perished in a prison fire in central Honduras.
  • (KTLA.com)
  • The most recent similar disaster in Honduras, in May 2004, killed around 100 inmates during a fire at a prison in San Pedro Sula, which was blamed on structural problems at the facility.
  • (MSN Philippines News)
  • A fire swept through a crowded prison in Comayagua, Honduras overnight, leaving at least 300 inmates dead. The blaze is believed to have been started around 11 p.m. by an inmate purposely setting his mattress on fire.
  • (Transworld News)
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  • (CNN)

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