A fire during a prison riot in south-west Colombia has killed 49 inmates and injured at least 30 other people, including prison warders. The national prison authority said the fire in Tuluá ...

The facility has been dubbed the 'prison of death' by many as it houses 12,000 of the country's worst humans despite only ...

A total of 108 inmates escaped the prison during the riot and remain missing ... route for cocaine smuggled from neighbouring Peru and Colombia, and the powerful Mexican drug cartels are said ...

A prison riot in Mozambique's capital Maputo left 33 people dead and 15 injured, the country's police general commander Bernardino Rafael said on Wednesday. About 1,534 people escaped from the ...