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Barrio 18 gang members are suspected of firing 15 police bullets discovered inside bodies of rival MS-13 gang members shot and burned to death during the prison attack on the outskirts of ...
The 18th Street Gang, also known as Eighteen St, Barrio 18, Mara 18, or simply 18 in North America, [1] [15] [16] [17] is a multi-ethnic (largely Central American and Mexican) transnational criminal organization that started as a street gang in Los Angeles.
Officials have said that the violence was the result of a clash between the rival Barrio 18 and Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gangs. ... Clashes between rival gangs at a woman's prison in Honduras left ...
Relatives said inmates at the facility had been threatened for weeks by members of the notorious Barrio 18. Gang members in a women’s prison in Honduras slaughtered 46 other women inmates by ...
On 20 June 2023, a prison riot broke out in the Women's Center for Social Adaptation, [a] a women's prison located in Támara, Honduras, about 29 km (18 mi) northwest from Tegucigalpa, the nation's capital. The riot is suspected to be the result of a conflict between female members of the MS-13 and 18th Street gangs. [1]
Honduras had a homicide rate eighteen times higher than the United States at this point in time. Many perpetrators of these crimes are young men between 15 and 34 years who are typically members of gangs like the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) or Barrio 18. [6]
Fear simmered among the small knot of relatives gathered Thursday for the wake of a mother and daughter who were among 46 female inmates slaughtered in this week’s prison riot in Honduras.
On 24 November 2022, the government of Honduras declared a state of emergency regarding gang violence in the country. [6] On 3 December 2022, the government announced that some constitutional rights would be suspended in the cities of Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula to crack down on criminal gangs in those two cities, particularly Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) and 18th Street Gang.