Prisoner freed, guards killed during ambush in Juárez
A group of gunmen attacked a Cereso prison transport truck Tuesday morning, freeing a prisoner and killing two guards in Juárez, officials said.
The truck was ambushed while returning to prison with inmate Juan Pablo Castillo Lopez, who had been taken for medical treatment of a hernia at the general hospital.
The prison truck was attacked on Avenida Lopez Mateos. Guards Arturo Morales Batres, 38, and Manuel Alvarez Flores, 35, were killed, and guard Miguel Angel Mendez Jose was wounded and taken to a hospital.
Chihuahua state police investigators counted 25 bullet casings at the scene.
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