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At least 51 inmates were killed and two dozen more injured early yesterday after a fire broke out during a prison riot in southwestern Colombia, the national prisons agency said

BOGOTA: More than 50 people died and 24 others were injured in a blaze at a prison in the south-western Colombian city of Tulua, after inmat... | News Track

A fire that started amid a prison riot in a Colombia jail killed over 50 people and injured 30 on Tuesday.

A fire at a prison in southwestern Colombia has killed at least 51 people and injured a dozen more, prison authorities reported Tuesday.

BOGOTA - At least 51 prisoners died after a fire started during a prison riot in the southwestern Colombian city of Tulua, the head of the national prisons agency said on Tuesday (June 28), one of the worst incidents of recent prison violence in the country. "It is a tragic and disastrous event," General Tito Castellanos, director of the INPEC...

Colombian leaders must recognize how drug trafficking has penetrated the country's culture, economy and politics and how the global war on drugs is driving its internal armed conflict, Colombia's truth commission said on Tuesday in a long-awaited report.

The commission's final report is based on interviews with 30,000 war victims, military leaders, former guerrilla fighters and five former Colombian presidents

At least 51 people died and 24 others were injured in a blaze at a prison in the southwestern Colombian city of Tulua, after inmates rioted and set fire to mattresses, local authorities have said.The prison does not have a firefighting system, ...

The tragedy occurred when rioting inmates set a fire at around 2am, attempting to prevent police from entering their enclosure at the prison in the city of Tulua, said Tito Castellanos, director of the National Penitentiary and Prison Institute.

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