Honduras Fire

Masked protesters set fire to the gate of the US embassy in Honduras on Friday during massive demonstrations against public sector reforms in the country.

A little girl from Honduras stares into the camera, her young features contorted in anguish. She's barefoot, dusty and clad only in a diaper and T-shirt. And she's just had to run from clouds of choking tear gas fired across the border by US agents.

Hooded assailants opened fire on a clutch of mourners outside a morgue in northern Honduras Tuesday, killing eight people and wounding four others, authorities said.

A fire started by an inmate tore through an overcrowded prison in Honduras, burning and suffocating screaming men in their locked cells as rescuers desperately searched for keys. Officials confirmed 358 dead on Wednesday, making it the world's deadliest prison fire in a century. The local governor, who was once a prison employee, told reporters tha...

The world has seen some really deadly prison fires with the death toll sometimes running into hundereds. The latest fire in Comayagua prison in Honduras is by far the deadliest fire in the world. Bur looking at some of the world's most lethal fires some disturbing facts emerge. Most of the fires (8 out of the 10 deadliest) is the last decade. Also ...

Trapped inmates screamed from their cells as a fire swept through a Honduran prison, killing at least 300 inmates in one of the world's deadliest fires in decades, authorities said on Wednesday. Some 475 people escaped from the prison in the town of Comayagua and 356 are missing and presumed dead, said Hector Ivan Mejia, a spokesman for the Hondura...

Masked protesters set fire to the gate of the US embassy in Honduras on Friday during massive demonstrations against public sector reforms in the country.

A little girl from Honduras stares into the camera, her young features contorted in anguish. She's barefoot, dusty and clad only in a diaper and T-shirt. And she's just had to run from clouds of choking tear gas fired across the border by US agents.

Hooded assailants opened fire on a clutch of mourners outside a morgue in northern Honduras Tuesday, killing eight people and wounding four others, authorities said.

A fire started by an inmate tore through an overcrowded prison in Honduras, burning and suffocating screaming men in their locked cells as rescuers desperately searched for keys. Officials confirmed 358 dead on Wednesday, making it the world's deadliest prison fire in a century. The local governor, who was once a prison employee, told reporters tha...

The world has seen some really deadly prison fires with the death toll sometimes running into hundereds. The latest fire in Comayagua prison in Honduras is by far the deadliest fire in the world. Bur looking at some of the world's most lethal fires some disturbing facts emerge. Most of the fires (8 out of the 10 deadliest) is the last decade. Also ...

Trapped inmates screamed from their cells as a fire swept through a Honduran prison, killing at least 300 inmates in one of the world's deadliest fires in decades, authorities said on Wednesday. Some 475 people escaped from the prison in the town of Comayagua and 356 are missing and presumed dead, said Hector Ivan Mejia, a spokesman for the Hondura...