A huge fire tears through an overcrowded prison in Burundi's capital Gitega, killing at least 38 inmates and seriously injuring many more
The interior ministry said on Twitter that the disaster was caused by an electrical short-circuit at the nearly century-old prison, constructed in 1926 when Burundi was a Belgian colony.
Victims with the most serious burns were taken to hospital, some ferried in police pick-up trucks, while others with milder cases were treated at the scene, witnesses said.The prison was struck by another fire in August according to the interior ministry, which also blamed an electrical fault. No casualties were reported from that incident.
In all, it was home to more than 1,500 inmates at the end of November, according to prison authority figures, far higher than its designed capacity of 400.
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