Two gang members who are in the US illegally held three teenage girls against their will in Houston, Texas, and killed one of them in a satanic ritual, authorities have said.

NEAR-SIMULTANEOUS attacks and riots at seven Guatemalan prisons on Monday have left 31 inmates dead.

Explosions at a makeshift prison for gang members launched near-simultaneous attacks at seven lockups across Guatemala, killing 31 people and displaying the organisational power of Central America’s gangs.

Unknown gunmen opened fire on a public bus in northern Honduras late yesterday, killing at least 23 passengers and wounding 16 others, apparently many women and children, police said.

More than 100 Honduran gang members perished after a short-circuit started a fire that tore through an overcrowded prison block.