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At least 48 women have been burned, shot or hacked to death with machetes in a massacre at a Honduras female prison, where clashes between rival gangs sparked a fire, police said.
President Xiomara Castro said Tuesday's riot in the town of Tamara, about 30 miles north-west of Honduras' capital, was 'planned by maras (street gangs) with the knowledge and acquiescence of security authorities'.
Castro pledged to take 'drastic measures' but did not explain how inmates identified as members of the Barrio 18 gang were able to get guns and machetes into the prison, or move into an adjoining cell block and slaughter all prisoners there.
Video presented by the government from inside the prison showed several pistols and a heap of machetes and other bladed weapons were found after the riot.
Sandra Rodríguez Vargas, assistant commissioner for Honduras' prison system, said the attackers 'removed' guards at the facility - none appeared to have been injured - around 8am on Tuesday and opened the gates to an adjoining cell block and began massacring women there. They started a fire that left cell walls blackened and bunks reduced to twisted heaps of metal.
Gangs slaughtered 48 women, many of them burned, shot or stabbed to death, at a women's prison in Honduras on Tuesday. Pictured: Police and military guarding the prison
Twenty-six of the victims were burned to death and the remainder shot or stabbed, said Yuri Mora, a spokesman for Honduras' national police investigation agency. At least seven inmates were being treated at a Tegucigalpa hospital.
The riot appears to be the deadliest at a female detention center in Central America since 2017, when girls at a shelter for troubled youths in Guatemala set fire to mattresses to protest rapes and other mistreatment at the overcrowded institution. The smoke and fire killed 41 girls.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...machetes-massacre-Honduras-female-prison.html
