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| Six Killed in Mexico Prison Riot |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 10/04/2001 |
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State police stormed a Mexican prison near the U.S border Tuesday night, wresting control from inmates after hours of rioting left six prisoners dead and 10 injured, authorities said. The riot erupted shortly after dawn in the solitary confinement wing of the Cereso Nogales II prison in Nogales, just across the border from its smaller twin city Nogales, Ariz. 'A small collection' of inmates used knives made from kitchen utensils to capture four officers, said Leopoldo Guzman, a spokesman for the government of northern Sonora state. Those prisoners then released more than 120 others who used knifes and clubs made from bedposts to beat back officers. After about five hours and repeated failures to win the release of the captured officers, state police fought through barricades of furniture and debris to regain control over the wing, Sonora's Interior Minister, Oscar Lopez said in a statement released Tuesday night. The statement said police didn't fire their weapons. But television and newspaper reporters said they heard shots. In a press conference late Tuesday, Lopez said six inmates were killed after being stabbed by fellow prisoners wielding homemade knives. Another 10 prisoners were injured in fighting between rioting inmates, he said. 'Not one inmate was injured by agents of the state police,' Lopez said. Mexican television reports Tuesday night put the number killed in the riot as high as 10 and said that as many as 50 other inmates and officers may have been injured. Cereso Nogales was locked-down Tuesday night and prison officials could not be reached for comment. Guzman said he could not explain the conflicting reports. Other prisoners in the 1,942-inmate prison were not involved in the rioting. |
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