TEGUCIGALPA (Honduras), Dec 22 — At least 18 inmates died and 16 were injured in overnight clashes between prisoners in Honduras after fighting erupted at a jail in the northern port town of Tela, prison officials said yesterday. The National Penitentiary Institute said 17 prisoners had died at...
Relatives of inmates react after getting information about their loved ones in front of the penitentiary of Tela, Atlantida department, Honduras, on December 21, 2019. — AFP pic
A prison spokesperson, Digna Aguilar, said authorities had to enter the area carefully “for fear of being among the victims” because several inmates carried firearms. That slowed the investigation. But as of Friday, the military had yet to take complete control of the Tela detention center, according to Aguilar.
That came just a day after Pedro Idelfonso Armas, the warden of El Pozo — the country’s main high-security prison, in the western city of Santa Barbara — was shot dead in the south of the country. President Hernandez condemned the conviction of his younger brother, saying it was based on “the testimony of confessed assassins.”A video circulating on social media shows the 52-year-old Armas talking with Meza when prison guards opened a locked gate, allowing a dozen inmates to burst in and stab and fatally shoot the drug trafficker.
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