According to police, a lot of the victims burned to dying. Riot may very well be linked to corruption or gang management inside the jail, officers mentioned.

A riot at a girls’s jail in Honduras has left a minimum of 41 lifeless, most of them burned to dying, a Honduran police official mentioned.

Authorities found 25 burnt corpses and are working to determine the our bodies, a spokesperson mentioned.

Inmates have been additionally reportedly shot on the Centro Femenino de Adaptacion Social (CEFAS) jail, located within the city of Tamara, 30 miles from the capital Tegucigalpa.

At least seven inmates have been admitted at Tegucigalpa Hospital for gunshot and knife wounds, workers there mentioned.

Julissa Villanueva, the pinnacle of the Honduras jail system, recommended the riot was a results of “the actions [authorities were] taking against organised crime”.

Ms Villanueva mentioned “we will not back down” following the incident.

The riot may be linked to corruption or gang management inside the jail, officers mentioned.

Gangs usually have important affect within the nation’s prisons, the place inmates set their very own guidelines and promote prohibited items.

The riot seems to be the worst tragedy at a feminine detention centre within the area since 2017, when women at a shelter for troubled youths in Guatemala set hearth to mattresses in protest at rapes and different mistreatment on the overcrowded establishment.