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| At Least 49 Inmates Killed in Mexican Prison Riot |
| By nytimes.com- Elisabeth Malkin |
| Published: 02/16/2016 |
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MEXICO CITY — The fight took less than an hour. At the end of it, at least 49 followers of two rival gang leaders lay dead, stabbed and beaten to death in an overcrowded, aging prison in the northern city of Monterrey. The trouble began just before midnight on Wednesday at the Topo Chico Prison when a struggle broke out between the gangs led by Jorge Ivan Hernández Cantú and Juan Pedro Saldívar Farías, said Gov. Jaime Rodríguez Calderón of Nuevo León. All of the dead were inmates, he said. The state government put the original death toll at 52, but officials said they had found only 49 bodies. One inmate was killed by a shot fired by a guard, Mr. Rodríguez said in interviews with local news media, but the rest were stabbed and beaten to death. Read More. |
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