A riot Tuesday at a girls’s jail in Honduras killed a minimum of 41 girls, most of them burned to demise, in violence linked to gang exercise, authorities stated.
Most victims have been burned however there additionally have been reviews of inmates shot on the jail in Tamara, about 30 miles (about 50 kilometers) northwest of the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa, stated Yuri Mora, the spokesman for Honduras’ nationwide police investigation company.
No less than seven feminine inmates have been being handled at a Tegucigalpa hospital for gunshot and knife wounds, workers there stated.
Julissa Villanueva, head of the nation’s jail system, urged the riot began due to current makes an attempt by authorities to crack down on illicit exercise inside prisons and known as Tuesday’s violence a response to strikes “we’re taking towards organized crime.
We is not going to again down, Villanueva stated in a televised tackle after the riot.
Gangs usually wield broad management contained in the nation’s prisons, the place inmates usually set their very own guidelines and promote prohibited items.
The riot seems to be the worst tragedy at a feminine detention middle within the area since 2017, when ladies at a shelter for troubled youths in Guatemala set hearth to mattresses to protest rapes and different mistreatment on the badly overcrowded establishment. The following smoke and hearth killed 41 ladies.
The worst jail catastrophe in a century additionally occurred in Honduras, in 2012 on the Comayagua penitentiary, the place 361 inmates. died in a fireplace presumably brought on by a match, cigarette or another open flame.
