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Gang members locked women in cells before Honduras prison riot fire

Gang members locked women in cells before Honduras prison riot fire

Armed people went into rival gang’s cell block, opened fire and doused survivors in flammable liquid, officer says after 46 killed

Gang members at a women’s prison in Honduras slaughtered 46 other female inmates by spraying them with gunfire, hacking them with machetes and then locking survivors in their cells before dousing them with flammable liquid, a senior police officer has said.

The carnage in Tuesday’s riot was the worst atrocity at a women’s prison in recent memory; the intensity of the fire left the walls of the cells blackened and beds reduced to twisted heaps of metal.

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