At Least 30 Prisoners Killed in Argentine Jail Fire
Posted on: Sunday, 16 October 2005, 15:00 CDT
Excerpt from report by Argentine news agency Telam
16 October: At least 30 prisoners died early this morning in the prison in Magdalena after starting a fire in block 16 of Prison Unit 28, apparently after a riot that started at midnight [local time] with clashes among the 60 prisoners housed in this so-called self- discipline [low security] block
. [Passage omitted]Source: BBC Monitoring Americas
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