Shoot-out between prisoners kills 13 inmates

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.

Yesterday’s armed fight came inside a cellblock housing 400 of the most dangerous prisoners doing time at the National Penitentiary, where least 27 inmates were murdered in 2005, most by their cellmates.