A fire tore through an overcrowded block in a jail in Indonesia's Banten province in the early hours of Wednesday, killingat least 40 people and injuring dozens, a government spokeswoman and media reports said.
The fire, which broke out at 1 to 2 a.m. at the Tangerang Prison Block C, had beenextinguished and authorities were still evacuating the facility,said Rika Aprianti, a spokeswoman of the prison department of the law and human rights ministry.The block housed inmates being held for drug-related offences and had a capacity for 122 people, she said.
The prison in Tangerang, an industrial and manufacturing hub near Jakarta, housed more than 2,000 inmates, far more than its 600 people capacity, according to government data as of September.
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