102 inmated died in a prison fire in Honduras yesterday. Authorities say the fire was caused by an electrical short. It's the second Honduran prison fire causing dozens of deaths in a year. Some are claiming foul play:

...family members of the dead were quick to accuse the government of foul play in its increasingly violent crackdown on the country's burgeoning gang culture. The fire broke out in the prison in San Pedro Sula, near the Guatemalan border, in the early hours. According to one survivor, the fire started at around 1.30am, a full two hours before uniformed officers arrived and began opening up cells to allow the inmates to escape the flames and smoke.

Most of the victims died of suffocation in their cells. Rescue workers found 101 corpses. A 102nd victim died on the way to hospital. ...It was the worst prison disaster in Honduran history but far from the only one. Just over a year ago, a riot and fire at El Porvenir prison in La Ceiba, also involving violent gang members, led to 68 deaths. On that occasion, one group of prisoners started a fire deliberately, which in turn provoked the authorities to storm in with guns blazing. An official report blamed most of those deaths on the government.