Forty-nine inmates died during an overnight riot in a prison in the southwestern Colombian city of Tulua, the head of the national prisons agency has said.
It is unclear what caused the riot but General Tito Castellanos, the head of the INPEC agency, told local Caracol Radio: "It is a tragic and disastrous event."
General Castellanos added that the prison had a total number of 1,267 inmates and around 30 people were injured.
