90 prisoners die in Honduras blaze

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

Vice minister of security, Armando Calidonio, said the fire consumed the prison as the inmates slept.

The prison is in the town of San Pedro Sula, 110 miles north of the capital, Tegucigalpa.

“Everything burned,” prisoner Jose Mauricio Lopez said from his hospital bed. “Everything happened fast while we were sleeping. It was a fire, and we woke up when our clothes and our bed was in flames.”