A carload of attackers armed with assault rifles drove up to a football field in a poor Honduran neighbourhood and opened fire, killing at least 14 people.

A bloody clash between rival groups inside Honduras’ biggest prison has left 13 inmates dead and one severely wounded, in the latest violence to hit the country’s overcrowded and ageing jails, authorities said today.

At least 13 inmates were killed and another 30 wounded in a shootout between rival groups inside Honduras’ biggest prison, the latest bloodshed to hit the country’s overcrowded and ageing jails.

A short-circuit in a Honduras prison started a blaze which killed at least 90 inmates and injured more than a dozen others today.

Suspected members of a street gang opened fire on passengers in separate attacks on three buses in the coastal city of San Pedro Sula, killing 12 and wounding 18, police said today.