A surviving inmate is escorted out of the compound at the National Prison of Comayagua where more than 300 prisioners were killed and scores injured when fire tore through the prison in central Honduras, the Central American country's prisons director said. The prison held around 850 prisoners. [Xinhua/AFP]
A United Nations human rights official on Wednesday called on Latin American countries to tackle the problem of prison overcrowding in the wake of an overnight fire at a jail in Honduras that killed hundreds of inmates.
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