<p>At least 41 people have died in a Honduran women's prison, a spokesperson from the public prosecutors' office said on Tuesday after an apparent prison riot.</p>.<p>Authorities are working to identify the bodies at the Centro Femenino de Adaptacion Social, a 900-person women's penitentiary around 20 kilometers (12 miles) from the capital city Tegucigalpa, spokesperson Yuri Mora told Reuters, saying some had died from burns, while others had been shot.</p>.<p>Delma Ordonez, the president of an association for prisoners' families, told Reuters that a brawl had broken out at the prison in the early hours of Tuesday between members of rival gangs Barrio 18 and the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13). Local media reported that there had been a riot.</p>.<p>Mora said the government could not currently confirm the details of what happened.</p>.<p>Images released by local media showed black smoke coming from a prison building.</p>.<p>Relatives of the inmates were stationed outside the prison later Tuesday seeking to find out about their loved ones.</p>.<p>"I'm looking for information about what happened to my daughter, but they still haven't informed us," a woman who identified herself as Ligia Rodriguez said in a television interview.</p>.<p>A hospital spokesperson, who asked for anonymity, said that seven people were being treated in a state hospital.</p>.<p>There is a history of deadly prison incidents in Honduras, with 18 inmates reportedly killed in a gang fight in a penitentiary in 2019, and over 350 dying in a fire in 2012. (Reporting by Gustavo Palencia; Writing by Isabel Woodford; Editing by Stephen Eisenhammer and Rosalba O'Brien)</p>
<p>At least 41 people have died in a Honduran women's prison, a spokesperson from the public prosecutors' office said on Tuesday after an apparent prison riot.</p>.<p>Authorities are working to identify the bodies at the Centro Femenino de Adaptacion Social, a 900-person women's penitentiary around 20 kilometers (12 miles) from the capital city Tegucigalpa, spokesperson Yuri Mora told Reuters, saying some had died from burns, while others had been shot.</p>.<p>Delma Ordonez, the president of an association for prisoners' families, told Reuters that a brawl had broken out at the prison in the early hours of Tuesday between members of rival gangs Barrio 18 and the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13). Local media reported that there had been a riot.</p>.<p>Mora said the government could not currently confirm the details of what happened.</p>.<p>Images released by local media showed black smoke coming from a prison building.</p>.<p>Relatives of the inmates were stationed outside the prison later Tuesday seeking to find out about their loved ones.</p>.<p>"I'm looking for information about what happened to my daughter, but they still haven't informed us," a woman who identified herself as Ligia Rodriguez said in a television interview.</p>.<p>A hospital spokesperson, who asked for anonymity, said that seven people were being treated in a state hospital.</p>.<p>There is a history of deadly prison incidents in Honduras, with 18 inmates reportedly killed in a gang fight in a penitentiary in 2019, and over 350 dying in a fire in 2012. (Reporting by Gustavo Palencia; Writing by Isabel Woodford; Editing by Stephen Eisenhammer and Rosalba O'Brien)</p>