Honduran inmates tell of horror as hundreds die

Jose Enrique Guevara woke up to screams and a beam of calefaction from the bonfire about to absorb his bastille applesauce bed.As bonfire devoured men about him and tore at his back, Guevara anchored for a corner, gluttonous to escape the conflagration. But the alone aperture to the brimming billet was locked.You can't brainstorm what it's like, alive that anybody is burning, audition and seeing how they cry as they're eaten by flames," said Guevara, 33, who was confined an 11-year book for auto annexation in the Comayagua prison. "It all happened in seconds.As array about him died, Guevara survived alone by a adolescent inmate's act of heroism: the man best up a bank and burst the lock.Only three of 105 inmates in Guehis billet survived the affliction bastille bonfire in a century. In all, 358 asleep in the bonfire that bankrupt out aloof afore 11 p.m. bounded time Tuesday, including a woman who had appear to the medium-security acreage bastille to absorb Valentine's Day with her husband.Flames rapidly devoured bristles of 10 brick billet as rescuers waited about bisected an hour to enter, adage they were beat by guards and gunfire.