Armed Attack On Mexican Jail Leaves 14 Dead: Prosecutors
Sumaira FH Published January 02, 2023 | 08:20 AM
Ciudad Ju�rez, Mexico, Jan 2 (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 2nd Jan, 2023 ) :Gunmen attacked a prison in the northern Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez on Sunday, leaving 14 people dead and allowing 24 inmates to escape, the Chihuahua state prosecutors' office said.
An unknown number of gunmen aboard armored vehicles took part in the attack, and the dead included 10 prison guards and security agents, it said in a statement.
The attack occurred around 7:00 am (1400 GMT) and sparked fighting between inmates within the sprawling state prison, prosecutors said.
Moments before the attack, armed men fired on municipal police along a nearby boulevard, setting off a car chase that ended with the seizure of a vehicle and four men, it added.
Later, assailants in a Hummer fired on another group of security agents outside the prison, it said.
Prosecutors said fighting within the prison, where inmates from differing criminal bands and drug cartels are housed in separate cellblocks, also left 13 people injured.
Prosecutors said four people were detained but did not specify if they were inmates or armed assailants.
Details were not available about how the 24 escaped inmates were able to flee.
Prosecutors in the city, which is across the border from El Paso, Texas, said they were investigating the motive of the attack.
Ciudad Juarez was the scene of years of violent clashes between the rival Sinaloa and Juarez drug cartels and security forces that left thousands of people dead in the past decade.
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