Buenos Aires Times | 51 inmates die in Colombia prison riot and fire
At least 51 inmates have died after a fire broke out during a prison riot in southwestern Colombia.
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At least 51 inmates have died after a fire broke out during a prison riot in southwestern Colombia.
Bogota, Jun 28 (EFE).- The death toll from a fire early Tuesday at the prison in the southwestern Colombian city of Tulua has risen to 51 after two injured people died at medical centers, officials said. Gen. Tito Castellanos, director of the National Penitentiary and Prison Institute (Inpec), the Colombian government agency that manages the …
At least 49 inmates were killed and dozens more injured early yesterday during an attempted prison escape in southwestern Colombia, an official from the national prisons agency told AFP.
A fire at a prison in southwestern Colombia has killed at least 51 people and injured a dozen more, prison authorities reported Tuesday.
At least 49 prisoners were dead and many more were injured during the early hours of Tuesday, 28 June, while trying to escape from a prison in the city of Tulua in southwestern Colombia.