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- Honduras officials says dropped cigarette may have caused fire that killed hundreds
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The Americas
- 3 inmates killed in northern Mexico prison near penitentiary where 44 were murdered 2 days ago
- Bolivian bandits lured victims onto what looked like city buses and strangled them, police say
- Slaughter of 44 inmates during breakout underlines corruption inside Mexico's crowded prisons
- Honduras officials says dropped cigarette may have caused fire that killed hundreds
