COMAYAGUA, Honduras (AP) — Honduran officials confirmed Wednesday that 358 people died when a fire tore through an overcrowded prison, making it the world’s deadliest prison fire in a century.
With 856 prisoners packed into barracks, the farm prison in the Comayagua province north of the capital was at double capacity, said Supreme Court Justice Richard Ordonez, who is leading the investigation. Ordonez said the fire started in a barracks where 105 prisoners were, and only four of them survived. Some 115 bodies have been sent to the morgue in the capital of Tegucigalpa.
 
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