Fourteen dead in prison riot in northern Mexico
Crime • August 2010 • Views: 492
A prison brawl left 14 inmates dead on Friday in an area of northern Mexico that has been overrun by violence in the country’s spiralling drug war, a state police spokesman said.
The early morning brawl broke out between two groups of prisoners in a jail in the city of Matamoros in northern Tamaulipas state, which borders Texas, spokesman Hector Walle told Reuters.
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On Thursday evening, a car bomb exploded outside a police station in the Tamaulipas state capital Ciudad Victoria, but no one was injured in the blast.