Gang slaughtered 46 women at Honduran prison with machetes, guns and flammable liquid, official says

An official says that gang members inside a women’s prison in Honduras slaughtered 46 other women inmates by spraying them with gunfire, hacking them with machetes and then locking survivors in their calls and dousing them with flammable liquid. It was the worst atrocity at a women's prison in recent memory, something President Xiomara Castro called “monstrous.” Relatives said inmates at the facility had been threatened for weeks by members of the notorious Barrio 18 gang. An official said Wednesday the gang members armed themselves, brushed past guards and even carried their own locks, to shut their victims in and burn them to death. The fire left the walls of the cells blackened and beds reduced to twisted heaps of metal.