Gang slaughtered 46 women at Honduran prison in ‘monstrous’ attack

An ambulance is seen at the entrance of the women’s prison in Honduras (Elmer Martinez/AP)

Gang members in a women’s prison in Honduras slaughtered 46 other women inmates by spraying them with gunfire, attacking them with machetes and then locking survivors in their cells and dousing them with flammable liquid, an official said.

The carnage in Tuesday’s riot was the worst atrocity at a women’s prison in recent memory, something President Xiomara Castro called “monstrous”.