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发帖数: 901 | 1 COMAYAGUA, Honduras (Reuters) - Survivors of a Honduran jailhouse fire that
killed more than 350 inmates accused guards of leaving prisoners to die
trapped inside their cells and even firing on others when they tried to
escape.
As torched bodies were pulled out of the prison complex on Thursday,
relatives of victims, survivors and experts said massive overcrowding,
guards' negligence and a failed justice system were to blame for the
disaster, which killed many inmates who had not even been convicted.
Unable to escape the inferno that tore through Comayagua National
Penitentiary on Tuesday night, terrified prisoners died screaming to be let
out of their cells.
Rosendo Sanchez, a convicted murderer serving a 10-year sentence, awoke as
the blaze started. He escaped his building and says he saw guards firing at
other inmates trying to escape.
"It was hell here, seeing your friends, people you have known well burn
alive," he said, noting that the fire brigade did not come into the prison
for more than half an hour.
The country's director of police intelligence, Elder Madrid, said the fire
broke out in block six during a fight over a mattress between two inmates,
one of whom set it on fire. All but four of more than 100 prisoners in the
block died, he said.
But some victims' relatives said the government had been grossly negligent
or had even planned the blaze.
Some of the 850 or so inmates of the overcrowded jail managed to force their
way to safety through the tin roofs of the prison, a dark maze-like
structure with narrow open-air hallways lined with white and blue brick
walls.
But 359 of the prisoners never found their way out, according to the
attorney general's office.
Claudio Saenz, a social worker who visits the jail, said the dead included
people who were not even given a proper trial.
"Many were not convicted and have been here two or three years and they were
not able to be released because the Honduran justice system is really slow,
" he said.
Prison chaplain Reynaldo Moncada said that probably only around half of the
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: COMAYAGUA, Honduras (Reuters) - Survivors of a Honduran jailhouse fire that
: killed more than 350 inmates accused guards of leaving prisoners to die
: trapped inside their cells and even firing on others when they tried to
: escape.
: As torched bodies were pulled out of the prison complex on Thursday,
: relatives of victims, survivors and experts said massive overcrowding,
: guards' negligence and a failed justice system were to blame for the
: disaster, which killed many inmates who had not even been convicted.
: Unable to escape the inferno that tore through Comayagua National
: Penitentiary on Tuesday night, terrified prisoners died screaming to be let
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