18 inmates die in Honduran prison attack

A Honduran police official says at least 18 inmates have died in a prison attack.

Security Ministry spokesman Wilmer Torres says 31 prisoners were attacked by their cellmates with knives and guns just hours after they were transferred Friday night to a prison in Tegucigalpa from San Pedro Sula, 110 miles (180 kilometers) north of the capital.

The prisoners fought back, engaging in a bloody battle. Thirteen survived.

Torres said the prison was under control later Saturday and that police are investigating a motive for the attack.

(This version CORRECTS that the attack happened in Tegucigalpa instead of San Pedro Sula and that 31 instead of 26 prisoners were transferred, and deletes incorrect information that eight were injured.)