Firefighters took over an hour to extinguish a deadly fire that broke out Tuesday night
A fire broke out at 11 p.m. in Comayagua, Honduras. The prison is about an hour from Honduras' capital, Tegucigalpa, and was holding about 800 prisoners at the time of the fire, according to a senior official at the Attorney General's Office, Danelia Ferrera.
359 inmates are confirmed dead, and around 100 are still unaccounted for. It is not clear whether the blaze was an accidental short-circuit in the electrical system, or an inmate deliberately lit a mattress on fire.