“Bloody riot” prisoners in Guatemala.

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"Кровавый бунт" заключённых в Гватемале: есть погибшиеThe police sent to pacify the rebels.

Killed at least five people and injured about 50.

At least five people were killed and 50 injured in the rioting, arranged in a Guatemalan prison “Pavon”.

Two groups of inmates staged a shootout on the territory of the correctional institution maximum security regime.

The riots began after one of the courtyards of the prison was blown up by a grenade. Among the dead was one of the most famous prisoners of the country, former army captain Byron Lima, was convicted in 1998 for the murder of Bishop Juan Gerardi.

As the representative of the penitentiary system of the Central American States Rudy Esquivel, in five prisons in the complex “Fraijanes”, which includes “Pavon”, the alarm was given.

The authorities sent an additional contingent of police and soldiers to maintain security.

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