{"id":7346,"date":"2021-09-08T06:37:06","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T06:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hamslivenews.com\/?p=7346"},"modified":"2021-09-08T08:30:03","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T08:30:03","slug":"41-people-have-died-in-indonesian-prison-after-a-fire-broke-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hamslive.com\/news\/2021\/09\/41-people-have-died-in-indonesian-prison-after-a-fire-broke-out\/","title":{"rendered":"41 people have died in Indonesian prison after a fire broke out"},"content":{"rendered":"

At least 41 people in Indonesia lost their lives to a fire that broke out at a prison on the outskirts of the capital Jakarta.<\/h2>\n

While prisoners were asleep in the prison, a raging broke out in the early hours of Wednesday morning at Tangerang Jail.<\/p>\n

There were 122 inmates staying in Block C – the prison block that was affected – far more than the 40-person capacity.<\/p>\n

The block housed inmates were imprisoned for drug-related crimes and 41 lost their lives while dozens more are said to be injured, with some admitted in the ICU.<\/p>\n

A short circuit is speculated to be the source of the fire, though the spokeswoman for Indonesian correctional institutions said this was yet to be confirmed and would be investigated further.<\/p>\n

There were merely 15 guards were on duty for the entire building, which housed 2,000 inmates, stuffed in an intended 600-person prison capacity. Indonesian prisons are overcrowded and understaffed and this is a tenacious predicament in their jails.<\/p>\n

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