Gang members in a women’s prison in Honduras slaughtered 46 other inmates in the worst such atrocity in recent memory, something President Xiomara Castro called “monstrous.”
Inmates had complained for weeks they were being threatened by gang members at a women’s prison in Honduras. The gang fulfilled those threats, slaughtering 41 women, many of them burned, shot or stabbed to death. Inmates had complained for weeks they were being threatened by gang members at a women’s prison in Honduras. The gang fulfilled those threats, slaughtering 41 women, many of them burned, shot or stabbed to death.
Chillingly, the gang members were able to arm themselves with prohibited weapons, brush past guards and attack; they even carried locks to shut their victims inside, apparently to burn them to death. The intensity of the fire left the walls of the cells blackened and beds reduced to twisted heaps of metal.
Castro said Tuesday’s riot at the prison in the town of Tamara, about 30 miles northwest of Honduras’ capital, was “planned by maras with the knowledge and acquiescence of security authorities.” “Obviously, there must have been human failures,” López Rochez said. “We are investigating all the employees at the center.”
The worst prison disaster in a century also occurred in Honduras, in 2012, at the Comayagua men’s penitentiary, where 361 male inmates died in a fire possibly caused by a match, cigarette or some other open flame. “She told me the last time I saw her on Sunday that the 18 people had threatened them, that they were going to kill them if they didn’t turn over a relative,” she said.
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