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At least 18 prisoners have been killed in a fight at a jail in Honduras .It happened when a group of inmates¹ who had been transferred from another jail were set upon by armed inmates. Police were called in to help restore order. Claire Marshall reports from Honduras .

According to a spokesman from the Honduras Security Ministry², the riot started later on Friday in Honduras 's National Penitentiary³ , just outside the capital Tegucigalpa , Local media reports say that the violence started when a member of one gang shot dead a rival gang member. Prison guards and polices had to fire shot into the air to force their way into the cells to break up the fight. According to one news agency, many of the inmates were hacked⁴ to death with knives and machetes.

1 inmates   

n.囚犯( inmate的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• One of the inmates has escaped. 被收容的人中有一个逃跑了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The inmates were moved to an undisclosed location. 监狱里的囚犯被转移到一个秘密处所。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 ministry   

n.(政府的)部；牧师

参考例句：

• They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
• We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。

3 penitentiary   

n.感化院；监狱

参考例句：

• He worked as a warden at the state penitentiary.他在这所州监狱任看守长。
• While he was in the penitentiary her father died and the family broke up.他坐牢的时候，她的父亲死了，家庭就拆散了。

4 hacked   

生气

参考例句：

• I hacked the dead branches off. 我把枯树枝砍掉了。
• I'm really hacked off. 我真是很恼火。