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Prison fire relatives storm morgue

2012-02-21 33 Dailymotion

Relatives of inmates killed in the Honduras prison fire last week push down the fence to a makeshift morgue.<br/> <br />Soldiers guarding the morgue are unable to hold back the grief-stricken crowd, and can only watch as people force open a trailer to discover dozens of body bags inside.<br/> <br />With no morgue large enough to accommodate the hundreds of corpses, body bags have been dumped on the back of trucks, and litter the ground at the site.<br/> <br />(SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) UNIDENTIFIED RELATIVE OF INMATE SAYING:<br/> <br />"They are rotting. With no cool room how are they going to return the bodies. My brother is already dead, return him, they've already killed him."<br/> <br />Authorities say at least 357 people died in the blaze that began late on Tuesday February 14 at a prison some 75 kilometres north of Tegucigalpa.<br/> <br />Local radio reports said many inmates were burned to death in their cells.<br/> <br />Distraught and angry relatives were in shock at the condition of the corpses and how they were being stored.<br/> <br />(SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) UNIDENTIFIED RELATIVE OF INMATE SAYING:<br/> <br />"Look how they left them, just like dogs."<br/> <br />The prison housed more than 850 inmates - well above its capacity.<br/> <br />Nick Rowlands, Reuters.

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