Honduras families seek answers after women die in prison riot – video report
Honduran authorities are investigating a reported prison riot in which at least 41 women died on Tuesday. The president of an association for prisoners' families, Delma Ordonez, told Reuters that a brawl had broken out at the prison in Tamara in the early hours of Tuesday between members of two rival gangs, Barrio 18 and the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13). President Xiomara Castro said she was shocked by what she called the 'monstrous murder' of the women, which she blamed on powerful street gangs. Julissa Villanueva, the head of the country’s prison system, suggested the riot had started because of recent attempts by authorities to crack down on illicit activity inside prisons, and called Tuesday’s violence a result of 'the actions we are taking against organised crime'