27 Die, 30 Injured in Salvadoran Prison Riot
Associated Press
SAN SALVADOR —
Rival inmates battled each other with makeshift knives, metal bars and rocks Thursday at a prison in eastern El Salvador, and 27 prisoners were killed and 30 injured, authorities said.
The fighting began at 2 a.m. and ended about five hours later when guards reimposed calm, said the warden of the San Francisco Gotera prison, speaking by telephone from the penitentiary 100 miles east of San Salvador.
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