At least 18 prisoners have been killed in a fight at a jail in Honduras .It happened when a group of inmates who had been transferred from another jail were set upon by armed inmates. Police were called in to help restore order. Claire Marshall reports from Honduras .

According to a spokesman from the Honduras Security Ministry, the riot started later on Friday in Honduras 's National Penitentiary , just outside the capital Tegucigalpa , Local media reports say that the violence started when a member of one gang shot dead a rival gang member. Prison guards and polices had to fire shot into the air to force their way into the cells to break up the fight. According to one news agency, many of the inmates were hacked to death with knives and machetes.