The death toll from a riot at a women's prison in Honduras rose to 46, a government spokesperson said on Wednesday, as anxious relatives demanded information about the fate of incarcerated family members.
take control of most of the country's penal systemHonduras' government also expanded a state of exception implemented in December and said it would turn islands hundreds of kilometers off the coast into a penal colony for "highly dangerous" gang leaders.
At Tegucigalpa's main public morgue, workers were running out of space for victims' remains as relatives arrived, with some asking that officials release a list of the victims from Tuesday's violence. In a statement on Wednesday, the regional director of the United Nations' children's agency, Garry Conille, said some of the women had been living with their children in detention.
"Everybody passes the ball ... everything goes unpunished," Garcia said. "It is unfair that we are suffering because of corruption."
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