TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras—The death toll from a riot at a women’s prison in Honduras rose to 46, a government spokesperson said on Wednesday, as anxious relatives demanded information about the fate of incarcerated family members.
Relatives of inmates gathered at the Centro Femenino de Adaptacion Social, the 900-person women’s penitentiary around 20 kilometers (12 miles) from the capital city Tegucigalpa, where gang violence erupted a day earlier.
At Tegucigalpa’s main public morgue, workers were running out of space for victims’ remains as relatives arrived, with some asking that officials release a list of the victims from Tuesday’s violent incident.
Identifying victims is a challenge, as many of which were “charred or reduced” to ash, according to Yuri Mora, spokesperson for the public prosecutor’s office….