Another 18 prisoners dead in new Honduras jail clash: military

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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.