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(CNN Spanish) - At least 16 prisoners were killed with firearms and sharps inside the maximum security prison in the municipality of El Porvenir, department of Francisco Morazán, the spokesman for the National Interinstitutional Force told CNN FUSINA, José Coello.
According to the military, in the incident, which occurred around five in the afternoon, local time, two inmates were also injured, who were taken to the Tegucigalpa School Hospital, where he receives medical assistance. According to the authorities of the hospital, their situation is delicate, but they are stable.
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The authorities investigate the causes of this incident, although it is preliminary said that one of the prisoners took out a firearm and began firing at his companions and then began the brawl that ended with the 16 deceased inmates and the two injured.
The incident occurs about 48 hours after a massacre was recorded in the prison in the city of Tela, department of Atlántida, where 18 inmates were killed with firearms and 16 more were injured.
Last Tuesday the Honduran government passed an emergency decree for prisons and formed intervention groups made up of soldiers and police to, they say, improve security in the 24 prisons
that the Central American country has.
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