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Bolivia prison riot leaves at least 15 dead
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-23819442A fire that broke out at the jail took almost two hours to put out A riot at a jail in eastern Bolivia has left at least 15 people dead and more than 50 injured, officials say.
The head of police, Alberto Jorge Aracena, said many of the bodies had been burnt.
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He also said he had seen the charred body of a small boy.
Prisons in Bolivia are often overcrowded, but not only with adults. Hundreds of children live in them while their parents serve their sentences.
Under the country's legislation, children under six years are allowed to stay in their parents' cells.
But many remain there even longer, as there is nowhere else for them to go.