Gang behind slaughter of 41 women at Honduran prison, officials say

Relatives of inmates wait in distress outside the entrance to the women’s prison in Tamara (AP)

Inmates had complained for weeks they were being threatened by gang members at a women’s prison in Honduras before 41 of them were killed in a riot, family members said.

Many of the victims had been burned, shot or stabbed to death in the rampage at the prison in the town of Tamara, about 30 miles north-west of Honduras’ capital Tegucigalpa.