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Another 18 prisoners dead in new Honduras jail clash: military
TEGUCIGALPA, Dec 23, 2019 (BSS/AFP) – Eighteen people were killed in
Sunday afternoon clashes between prisoners at a jail in central Honduras,
less than two days after another 18 died in violence at a separate facility,
a military spokesman told local media.
The spokesman for the combined national security force known as Fusina
released a list of names of the 18 dead and two injured, saying that
“firearms, knives and machetes” were used in the clashes in El Porvenir
prison north of the capital Tegucigalpa.
BSS/AFP/MSY/0835 hrs