The death toll from a fire and clashes between rival gangs at a women's prison in Honduras has risen to 46, the prosecutor's office said Wednesday, as the first bodies were handed over to mourning families for burial.
The violence erupted at a prison about 25 kilometres north of the capital Tegucigalpa on Tuesday, when members of a gang burst into an area housing a rival group, shot at them with heavy-caliber weapons, and set the place on fire.
A spokeswoman for the Forensic Medicine Directorate, Issa Alvarado, said 23 of the bodies had been identified by Wednesday morning and handed over to relatives. Along with neighbors El Salvador and Guatemala, Honduras forms Central America's so-called"triangle of death" plagued by the murderous gangs called"maras" that control drug trafficking and organized crime.
US prosecutors say Hernandez turned Honduras into a"narco-state" involving the military, police and civilians in drug trafficking.
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