Some women were burned to death in uprising blamed on crackdown on illicit activities inside of the country’s prisons
At least 41 women have been killed – some of them burned to death – after an outbreak of violence between gangs at a prison in Honduras.
Authorities found dozens of bodies after the violence on Tuesday at the prison in Tamara, about 30 miles (50km) north-west of the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa, said Yuri Mora, spokesperson for the national police investigation agency.
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