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Honduras prison fire one of world's worst

Seeded on Wed Feb 15, 2012 8:27 PM EST
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A fire that broke out apparently when an inmate set a mattress ablaze in an overcrowded Honduran prison has left as many as 350 inmates dead as investigators pull one body after another from the smouldering facility.

The fire, which started at 10.50pm Tuesday at the Comayagua National Penitentiary, took firefighters three hours to douse.

Guards fired their guns repeatedly to keep screaming trapped inmates from escaping.

"It is a day of deep pain for Honduras," President Porfirio Lobo said in a brief televised address, acknowledging that a criminal hand may have been behind the disaster.

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Abby.

The guards as good as murdered those that might have been saved.

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Reply#1 - Wed Feb 15, 2012 8:28 PM EST
backroads

It takes someone special to allow people to burn to death.

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Reply#2 - Wed Feb 15, 2012 8:33 PM EST
Abby.

Yeah, a special kind of cruel & sadistic someone.
:(

  • 2 votes
#2.1 - Wed Feb 15, 2012 8:45 PM EST
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Neetu M.

A horrendous thing, to think how these trapped prisoners didn't even have a chance!

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Reply#3 - Wed Feb 15, 2012 9:28 PM EST
Abby.

The guards are an embarrassment to the human species.

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#3.1 - Wed Feb 15, 2012 10:50 PM EST
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smellsofpoo

They were not allowed to save themselves, that is murder.

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Reply#4 - Wed Feb 15, 2012 11:02 PM EST
Abby.

I totally agree.

    #4.1 - Wed Feb 15, 2012 11:14 PM EST
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