Mexico City Twenty-three inmates were killed after a brawl broke out between rival drug gangs at a penitentiary in northern Mexico.
Carla Puente, a prison official, said that she did not know the reason for the fight at the facility housing 2,025 inmates in the city of Durango, and officials wouldn’t identify the gangs involved. The violence was quelled by soldiers and state police officers.
Carlos Garcia Carranza, the president of the Durango state human rights commission, said the fighting “was the result of what’s happening outside the prisons. It’s part of the fight between organised crime groups for control of territory and that is being reflected inside the prisons”.
Mr Carranza has recommended that the more violent drug-cartel associates be moved out of medium security detention centres.