A fire at a Colombian prison killed at least 10 inmates and injured more than three dozen others, prison officials said on Tuesday. Hours before the fire, a search had turned up "large amounts of narcotics, weapons and cell phones," General Saul Torres, director of Colombia's prison institutes, told Caracol radio. Prisoners continued with the dispute and set fire to mattresses," he said. Ombudsman Jorge Otalora said "this was one of the hypotheses," and his office would submit a report on what happened.



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