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5 prisoners beheaded in Guatemala prison fight



By AP
22 November 2008 @ 04:46 pm EST

GUATEMALA CITY - A prison fight in Guatemala has left seven inmates dead, including five who were decapitated.

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National prisons systems spokesman Rudy Esquivel says authorities found the five heads after the fight in the Pavoncito prison in Guatemala City. He says two other inmates died in a hospital of gunshot wounds.

Reporters saw a group of prisoners standing behind four heads lined up on piles of rocks in a yard. The fifth head was on a wooden stake. At one point, a prisoner masking his face with a red T-shirt lifted up one of the heads in triumph.

Esquivel says the Saturday morning fight erupted because inmates were angry over the transfer of a group of alleged gang members from another prison.

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