ROUGH CUT - NO REPORTER NARRATION<br/> <br />An intense fire tore through a market place in the capital, Tegucigalpa, on Saturday (February 18th).<br/> <br />The blaze erupted during one of the busiest times for trade.<br/> <br />Fire fighters were blocked from getting to the scene by narrow one-way streets packed with shoppers and wall-to-wall market stalls.<br/> <br />The Mayor's office said there had been no reports of deaths.<br/> <br />The cause of the inferno was not immediately clear.<br/> <br />Some witnesses said it had been started by a bomb thrown into the building, others said it was started by an electrical short circuit at one of the vendor stalls.<br/> <br />President Porfirio Lobo called an emergency meeting of cabinet ministers over the incident.<br/> <br />The blaze follows an unrelated incident on Wednesday (February 15) when fire swept through a detention centre just over 70 kilometres from Tegucigalpa.<br/> <br />The attorney general's office says 359 people were killed although police say some of those presumed dead may have escaped.<br/> <br />The blaze is considered one of the worst prison fires ever in Latin America.
