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Honduras Prison Fire Kills 272

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Gheorge Popescu
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-17038259



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A massive fire has swept through a jail in Honduras, killing at least 272 prisoners, officials say.

Many of the victims were burned or suffocated to death in their cells at the jail in Comayagua, in central Honduras.

Families flocked to the site, desperate for news. Some prisoners escaped the blaze by breaking through the roof to jump from the building, they said.

Officials are investigating whether an electrical fault caused the blaze.

The fire broke out late on Tuesday night and took more than an hour to be brought under control.

Dozens of prisoners died trapped in their cells and were burned beyond recognition.

Comayagua firefighters' spokesman Josue Garcia said there were "hellish" scenes at the prison and that desperate inmates had rioted in a bid to escape the flames.

"We couldn't get them out because we didn't have the keys and couldn't find the guards who had them," he said.

Confusion
Lucy Marder, who heads the forensic services in Comayagua, said that reports indicated at least 272 people had been killed.

The prison was holding more than 800 inmates
She later said that 356 people on the prison roster were unaccounted for.

"The majority could be dead, though others could have suffered burns, escaped or survived," Ms Marder said.

The prison in Comayagua, some 100km (60 miles) north of the capital, Tegucigalpa, was holding more than 800 inmates.

It was feared many of them had fled in the chaos, officials said.

Amid the confusion, relatives gathered outside the prison to try to get information.

"I'm looking for my brother. We don't know what's happened to him and they won't let us in," Arlen Gomez told Honduran radio.

Local hospitals are treating dozens of people for burns and other injuries.

Some of the injured have been taken to Tegucigalpa for treatment, among them 30 people with severe burns.

Firefighters said they had struggled to enter the prison because shots had been fired.

Honduran media reported that there had been a riot in the prison before the fire broke out.

Prison service head Daniel Orellana denied this.

"We have two hypotheses. One is that a prisoner set fire to a mattress and the other one is that there was a short-circuit in the electrical system," he was quoted as saying by Reuters.

Prisons in Honduras, which has the world's highest murder rate, are often seriously overcrowded and hold many gang members.


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wow what a crazy amount! Must of been an absolute inferno!
 
agreed, I do feel justice has rightly been done, but that has got to be one of the worst cases of fire entrapment ever


Insufficient information to decide whether 'Justice' has been done or not.


They could be facing extremely serious issues if they were murders/rapists/etc.


'She later said that 356 people on the prison roster were unaccounted for.'
 
agreed, I do feel justice has rightly been done, but that has got to be one of the worst cases of fire entrapment ever

and how exactly do you conclude that knowing nothing about the crimes the people are locked up?
or would you have EVERY criminal shot as soon as the judges hammer hits down?
 
and how exactly do you conclude that knowing nothing about the crimes the people are locked up?
or would you have EVERY criminal shot as soon as the judges hammer hits down?

mate, its GG! like the film chinatown. Its where the mentally insane spend productive work hours
 
mate, its GG! like the film chinatown. Its where the mentally insane spend productive work hours


I would like to disagree with the above statement. I am not spending my productive work hours here. I am in fact unemployed.


The morale high ground is mine? :mickey:
 
I would like to disagree with the above statement. I am not spending my productive work hours here. I am in fact unemployed.


The morale high ground is mine? :mickey:

i was once like you. I saw my struggling years as a planning phase for my assault on the wider economy. I may have made several posts which made little sense during this period.

high five!
 
Sorry - I'm not a hypocrit.

If they are in for petty theft, it's harsh.

Murderers and the like, good riddance, I would give them the death penalty in this country.

you are not a hypocrit, that is true

im very much an eye for an eye - but we dont know what these people were in for (unless i missed it in the article of course)

and the Honduran society has decided the death penalty is not for these people, so i can't fathom how them actually being burnt alive can be applauded
 
you are not a hypocrit, that is true

im very much an eye for an eye - but we dont know what these people were in for (unless i missed it in the article of course)

and the Honduran society has decided the death penalty is not for these people, so i can't fathom how them actually being burnt alive can be applauded

That prison was probably an oven. I can't imagine anyone had the 'good fortune' of a quick death. This has to be one of the worst ways to go, being burned to death or not having enough oxygen. Some of those inmates probably WISH they had faced the death penalty instead of this horrific incident.

Do you all think this incident was an accident?
 
That prison was probably an oven. I can't imagine anyone had the 'good fortune' of a quick death. This has to be one of the worst ways to go, being burned to death or not having enough oxygen. Some of those inmates probably WISH they had faced the death penalty instead of this horrific incident.

Do you all think this incident was an accident?

impossible to even speculate from just a small news article

there was a riot, logic says something in the riot caused the fire - but sometimes coincidence happens and the electrical fault theory could be perfectly vaild
 
impossible to even speculate from just a small news article

there was a riot, logic says something in the riot caused the fire - but sometimes coincidence happens and the electrical fault theory could be perfectly vaild



'Comayagua firefighters' spokesman Josue Garcia said there were "hellish" scenes at the prison and that desperate inmates had rioted in a bid to escape the flames.'

Honduran media reported that there had been a riot in the prison before the fire broke out.

Prison service head Daniel Orellana denied this.




Fire caused riot. Your logic is invalid. Your move.
 
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