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Fire in jail kills 90 inmates

TEGUCIGALPA (Honduras): A short-circuit at a jail in northern Honduras killed at least 90 inmates and injured more than a dozen others before dawn on Monday, the country's Vice-Minister of Security said. Armando Calidonio said the fire was caused by a short circuit, and consumed the jail as the inmates slept. It was the second major jail fire in Honduras in a little over a year. The prison was located in the city of San Pedro Sula, 180 km north of the capital, Tegucigalpa. ``Everything burned,'' a prisoner told a local radio station from his hospital bed. ``Everything happened fast while we were sleeping. It was a fire, and we woke up when our clothes and our bed were in flames.''

AP

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