Four Prisoners Beheaded After Gang Rival S Wife Is Murdered Police
The violent disturbance took place at a penitentiary in Quetzaltenango—a city in Guatemala’s western highlands—and resulted in at least seven prisoners killed. Most of the deceased—members of the Mara Salvatrucha and Barrio 18 gangs—had their heads severed, the National Civil Police (PNC) said. The prison, Granja Modelo de Rehabilitación Cantel, suffers from overcrowding and is said to house more than 2,000 inmates, four times the 500 it was designed to hold....