Forty-one inmates killed and 80 injured in fire at crowded Indonesian prison

A fireman stands inside a charred cell at Tangerang Prison in Indonesia (Indonesian Ministry of Justice and Human Rights via AP)

At least 41 inmates, two of them foreigners serving drug sentences, have died and 80 others have been injured following a fire at an overcrowded prison in Indonesia.

Firefighters worked throughout the early hours of Wednesday to extinguish the flames as black smoke billowed from the compound of the Tangerang prison on the outskirts of the country’s capital Jakarta.