The fire that swept through the medium-security prison in Comayagua, Honduras, on the night of Feb. 14, 2012, took the lives of 361 individuals. Devastating flames danced high above the prison walls.

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras - A fire started by an inmate tore through an aging and severely overcrowded Honduran prison, burning and suffocating inmates in their locked cells and killing at least 272 ...

Most of the prisoners burned alive by a fire at the Comayagua prison in Honduras that claimed 358 lives had never been charged or convicted, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.

According to an internal government report sent to the United Nations and seen by the Associated Press, more than half the prisoners at the Comayagua jail in Honduras had not been convicted. A late ...

COMAYAGUA, Honduras - Six guards, 800-plus prisoners in 10 cellblocks, one set of keys. The numbers added up to disaster when fire tore through a prison and 355 people died, many yet to even be ...

Honduran prisons are overcrowded, but not because there are too many criminals, one of the explanations that has been given for the Valentine's Day prison fire in the city of Comayagua that killed 360 ...

Honduras has begun the grim task of identifying the victims of Tuesday's prison fire, that is now known to have killed 355 people. Lorries took the bodies from the jail in Comayagua to the mortuary in ...

The 358 prisoners who died when a Honduran prison burned down had been locked inside an overcrowded facility, where most inmates had never been charged or convicted, according to a government report.

The agonising wait for families has now moved to Tegucigalpa Honduras has begun the grim task of identifying the victims of Tuesday's prison fire, that is now known to have killed 355 people. Lorries ...