'Government officials are describing these prisoners as thugs and criminal elements'

State media is citing security officials that this fire started when a number of prisoners tried to escape the prison and there were clashes with security. Government officials described these prisoners as thugs and criminal elements. Government officials are very adament that fire crews quickly responded to this inferno and extinguished the fire. FRANCE 24's Reza Sayah reports from Tehran, Iran. 

'Government officials are describing these prisoners as thugs and criminal elements'
State media is citing security officials that this fire started when a number of prisoners tried to escape the prison and there were clashes with security. Government officials described these prisoners as thugs and criminal elements. Government officials are very adament that fire crews quickly responded to this inferno and extinguished the fire. FRANCE 24's Reza Sayah reports from Tehran, Iran.