28 Dead and 3 Wounded After Brawl at Mexican Prison
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2017-07-08
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28 Dead and 3 Wounded After Brawl at Mexican Prison
The prison riot came a day after gun battles between two drug gangs in the northern state of Chihuahua left at least 14 people dead,
and three days after nine people were killed in Puebla, a state east of Mexico City, in a dispute related to control over the lucrative trade in stolen fuel, officials said.
The violence began before dawn, and by the time security forces regained control of the prison several hours later, corpses were scattered around two cellblocks, including in a kitchen, a yard
and an area reserved for conjugal visits, according to a statement from Roberto Álvarez Heredia, security spokesman for Guerrero, a state on Mexico’s Pacific Coast.
By KIRK SEMPLEJULY 6, 2017
MEXICO CITY — A brawl on Thursday among rival gangs in a prison in the Mexican resort city
of Acapulco left at least 28 people dead and three wounded, the authorities said.
This approach, first championed by President Felipe Calderón and continued by his successor, President Enrique Peña Nieto, has been successful in removing powerful crime bosses — like Joaquín Guzmán Loera, known as El Chapo —
but has spurred the fragmentation of once-monolithic enterprises into an array of smaller gangs that have waged bloody battles of succession.
The state’s governor ordered an investigation, Mr. Álvarez said, adding
that the inquiry would include "all the public officials of the penitentiary system." It was just the latest violent episode in Mexico over the past several days to end in large body counts, and the killings added to the country’s soaring homicide tally.
The prison riot came a day after gun battles between two drug gangs in the northern state of Chihuahua left at least 14 people dead,
and three days after nine people were killed in Puebla, a state east of Mexico City, in a dispute related to control over the lucrative trade in stolen fuel, officials said.
The violence began before dawn, and by the time security forces regained control of the prison several hours later, corpses were scattered around two cellblocks, including in a kitchen, a yard
and an area reserved for conjugal visits, according to a statement from Roberto Álvarez Heredia, security spokesman for Guerrero, a state on Mexico’s Pacific Coast.
By KIRK SEMPLEJULY 6, 2017
MEXICO CITY — A brawl on Thursday among rival gangs in a prison in the Mexican resort city
of Acapulco left at least 28 people dead and three wounded, the authorities said.
This approach, first championed by President Felipe Calderón and continued by his successor, President Enrique Peña Nieto, has been successful in removing powerful crime bosses — like Joaquín Guzmán Loera, known as El Chapo —
but has spurred the fragmentation of once-monolithic enterprises into an array of smaller gangs that have waged bloody battles of succession.
The state’s governor ordered an investigation, Mr. Álvarez said, adding
that the inquiry would include "all the public officials of the penitentiary system." It was just the latest violent episode in Mexico over the past several days to end in large body counts, and the killings added to the country’s soaring homicide tally.
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