 Seattle Times, WA
El Salvador — Homemade grenades started exploding midmorning on Aug. 18 at La Esperanza, El Salvador's largest prison, and 3,200 inmates locked inside the overcrowded cage stampeded to escape the blasts and the fireballs.
A battle between 400 members of a notorious street gang, Mara 18, and the rest of the inmates had erupted after weeks of tension. Hundreds of inmates took up shivs and shanks fashioned from broken wooden chapel benches and steel bed frames.
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