The deadly blaze erupted inside a detention center in Tuluá, Colombia on Tuesday after an inmate set fire to a mattress, according to the national prison system director.
At least 49 inmates were killed and dozens more injured early Tuesday after a fire broke out during a prison riot in southwestern Colombia, the national
Bogota, Jun 28 (EFE).- The death toll from a fire early Tuesday at the prison in the southwestern Colombian city of Tulua has risen to 51 after two injured people died at medical centers, officials said. Gen. Tito Castellanos, director of the National Penitentiary and Prison Institute (Inpec), the Colombian government agency that manages the …
At least 49 inmates were killed and dozens more injured early yesterday during an attempted prison escape in southwestern Colombia, an official from the national prisons agency told AFP.