On 28 June 2022, a fire broke out during a riot inside a prison in Tuluá, Colombia killing at least 52 people and injuring at least 34.

[1] In Colombia, and many other Latin American countries, prisons are highly overcrowded with riots a common issue.

Colombia's prison system which have the capacity to hold 81,000 inmates currently houses about 97,000 per official figures.

In March 2020 a riot in the La Modelo prison in Bogota, killed 24 inmates and injured 90 others over fears of COVID-19.

[3] Outgoing Colombian President Ivan Duque was in Portugal at the time of the fire and expressed his solidarity with the victims and their families and his sorrow over the tragedy.