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Two die, three injured in Honduras jailbreak
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Two die, three injured in Honduras jailbreak
MANAGUA Oct. 15 (Xinhua) -- Two people died, three were injured
and eight prisoners escaped in a jailbreak in northern Honduras
Monday, according to news reaching here.
Hector Ivan Mejia of the Central American nation's Public Security
Department said that one of the dead was identified as Oscar Osorio,
26, a guard at the prison in Yoro province, according to reports.
Mejia did not name ...
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