Dozens of people dead in Colombia prison riot
2 years, 5 months ago

Dozens of people dead in Colombia prison riot

Al Jazeera  

Forty-nine people have been killed and 30 injured during attempted escape from prison in Tulua, officials say. At least 49 people have died and dozens were injured in a fire during an apparent riot in a prison in the southwestern Colombian city of Tulua, according to officials. General Tito Castellanos, the head of the national prisons agency, said on Tuesday authorities were investigating whether prisoners had lit their mattresses on fire as part of an “escape attempt” or whether the riot was provoked “to cover some other situation”. “We regret the events in the prison in Tulua, Valle del Cauca,” Duque said. Castellanos said the Tulua prison has a total of 1,267 inmates and the cell block where the fire occurred housed 180.

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