JAKARTA (Reuters) – A fire at a jail in Indonesia’s Banten province has killed 40 people, Rika Aprianti, a spokeswoman of the prison department of the law and human rights ministry, said.
“The cause is under investigation,” she said, adding that the fire broke out at 1 to 2 a.m. on Wednesday and authorities were still evacuating the jail.
(Reporting by Agustinus Beo Da Costa; Writing by Gayatri Suroyo; Editing by Ed Davies)
