Fighting within the prison, where inmates from differing criminal bands and drug cartels are housed in separate cellblocks, also left 13 people injured. Four of them are being treated in hospital, prison authorities said. The city has seen years of violent clashes between the rival Sinaloa and Juarez drug cartels, killing thousands of people in the past decade. Both incidents underline the strength which the drug cartels still exert on the prison system. Minutes before the escape, armed men fired on police on a nearby street, setting off a car chase that ended up with four men being detained.

Source: The Star January 02, 2023 07:03 UTC