Tamara: Samantha doesn’t know how she survived the murder of 46 of her friends in a violent gang war at a women’s only prison in Honduras a year ago.
Only “extraordinary things” can explain how Barrio 18 gang prisoners refused to surrender when they entered the prison house of the rival gang Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), shot and set fire to some of them. he said.
Officials said on June 20, 2023, 23 inmates were killed in Tamara prison, northwest of the capital, Tegucigalpa. Another 23 people were burned.
Twelve months after the tragic incident, Samantha told AFP that she was in her cell that morning when she heard “shots and screams”.
He and other prisoners made a hole in the roof of the prison to escape from the bloodshed.
“It’s not a good idea,” said Samantha, who, like the survivor interviewed by AFP, did not want to give her real name, and went inside after the fire.
“We have no choice but to leave it in the hands of God.
“The wall behind me is full of holes,” Samantha said after the shooting.
He was shot dead in front of the prisoners.
Wendy, 32, from Tussaghana, told AFP on Monday that women were being cut “left and right” but “no one was helping”.
Rosario, 68, said she could not believe only two women out of 120 in her cell had died.
He told AFP that he was only three days away from his sentence when he was “cut in cold blood”.
