| | |  News Around the Republic of Mexico | November 2008 
Five Killed in Mexican Prison Riot
 Cyntia Barrera Diaz - Reuters
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| | Relatives of inmates react while waiting for news outside a prison in the border city of Reynosa, northern Mexico October 20, 2008. At least 21 prisoners died in a jail riot in Mexico near the Texas border on Monday when inmates from rival gangs staged a gun battle and set fire to the building. (Reuters/Tomas Bravo) | | |
Mexico City – Five people were killed in a prison riot in the northwestern Mexican port city of Mazatlan Friday, Mexican media said, the third deadly clash inside the country's overcrowded prisons in two months.
Police departments in Mazatlan declined to comment and Sinaloa state officials were not immediately available.
A shootout erupted in the prison early in the morning when inmates from different gangs clashed, Reforma newspaper said.
El Universal daily said five people were killed and a number of others were injured in the prison, home to some 1,100 inmates.
Guns and illegal drugs are a staple in most Mexican prisons, which suffer from overcrowding and corruption and are full of drug cartel and organized crime convicts.
Some 19 inmates were killed in a prison riot in the violent northern border city of Tijuana in September, including two U.S. citizens, and at at least 21 were killed in a gunbattle in a prison in Tamaulipas near the U.S. border in October.
President Felipe Calderón's army-led clampdown on Mexico's powerful drug smuggling gangs has sparked a wave of cartel violence that has killed more than 4,000 people this year and also put many cartel members behind bars.
(Editing by Mohammad Zargham) |
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