PRESS RELEASE Conclusions in ATF Team’s Investigation of Fire at Comayagua Prison Facility TEGUCIGALPA – After completing its investigation and analysis of the site of the Tuesday, February 14, 2012 fire at the Comayagua prison facility, the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms’ (ATF) International Response Team (IRT) working in conjunction with Honduran authorities […]
Press Release (English Translation) We deeply regret the death of Honduran inmates whose liberty was guarded at the Comayagua Prison Farm, and we sympathize with the pain felt by their families and the nation.
Firefighters Monday morning are still extinguishing remnants of a massive fire that overtook an outdoor market in Comayagüela, about 50 miles outside of Tegucigalpa on Saturday. “We will be here until this is over,” reported one fireman. Thousands of cubicles were destroyed, and approximately 20,000 merchants were affected. Although the damages were several million dollars, […]
PRESS RELEASE: ATF INTERNATIONAL RESPONSE TEAM TO INVESTIGATE PRISON FIRE IN HONDURAS WASHINGTON — At the request of the Honduran government, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) today activated its International Response Team (IRT) to investigate the fire that swept through a national correctional facility in Comayagua, Honduras, killing more than 350 […]
COMAYAGUA, Honduras — Two of the bodies were found facing one another in a large sink, their remains completely blackened. Others were squished together in the prison bathroom where they had sought refuge from the flames, their bodies an indistinguishable mass. If not for a split-second decision, Hector Daniel Martinez could have also died horrifically […]