Tegucigalpa, 17 feb ( EFE).- Experts of Peru will be added to the computer forensic international to help the authorities of Honduras in recognition of the 356 people who died in the fire of the Penal farm of Comayagua (Center), reported today to Efe an official source.
Peruvians will arrive between today and tomorrow in Tegucigalpa, said the spokesman of the Public Ministry (MP), Melvin Duarte.
In addition, confirmed the forthcoming incorporation of experts from the National Institute of Forensic Sciences of Guatemala, announced today by the neighbouring country authorities.
Experts Peruvian and Guatemalan, added the spokesman, will join the Salvadoran, Mexican, Chilean specialists and international Red Cross working with the staff of the Directorate of forensic medicine of the MP in Tegucigalpa.
Duarte reported that 16 bodies recognized to date, 14 were already delivered to mourners and is expected to the families of the other two victims.
Two of the deceased, Marvin Javier Muñoz and Marcos Vinicio Suazo, were buried by their families in a cemetery in Tegucigalpa today.
Duarte said that “it has not been found yet” the time that will take the forensic work, but that “we are looking how expedite work with different teams”.
Furthermore, the Honduran Minister of health, Arturo Bendaña, confirmed to journalists the death of the third of ten prisoners affected by Burns and placed in the State Hospital School of Tegucigalpa, which increased the death toll to 356.
The third late in the school Hospital was Nery Gómez, aged 31, and the other two, who died on Wednesday, Ãngel López Herrera (25) and Alfonso ChavarrÃa (70), according to sources in the Center.
Bendaña summarized that, of ten prisoners, “three unfortunately already died, two in serious condition and there are five with a better prognosis”; other ten injured were hospitalized in Comayagua.
Health Minister praised “Hospital school staff, staff of the Board of plastic surgery, because they have done work that is important to noted her”.
“Not have spared no effort to give them all the attention, both human resources and medicines to these patients, which without any doubt, if it weren’t so have been here in the Hospital School, perhaps had already fallen into the list of the dead”, he stressed Bendaña.
Spain, Taiwan and Israel, among other countries and agencies, have donated funds for the purchase of medications to hospitalized inmates.
On the causes of the incident, destroyed part of the criminal grounds between Tuesday and Wednesday, the spokesman for the MP said that “being investigated all versions”, including a short circuit, the burning of a mattress by an accused or criminal hands.
“We do not anticipate, can still not be confirmed any” hypothesis, said Duarte.
Los 356 dead were 355 convicts and a woman walked on a visit, according to the MP. EFE
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