Four die in Mexico prison fight
January 30th, 2012 - 11:38 am ICT by IANSCiudad Juarez (Mexico), Jan 30 (IANS/EFE) Four inmates were killed and seven wounded in a fight at the Aquiles Serdan prison in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua, state officials said Sunday.
Members of the Los Aztecas gang, which works for the Juarez drug cartel, fought with rivals from the Mexicles gang, the armed wing of the Sinaloa cartel, with homemade knives, Chihuahua state Attorney General’s Office spokesperson Carlos Gonzalez said.
“As of now, there are four dead and seven wounded, all of them prison inmates, and all attacked with knives,” Gonzalez told EFE.
Visiting hours were cancelled Sunday while investigators continue gathering evidence at the prison.
Federal Police officers found 24 weapons, including five assault rifles and two Uzi submachine guns, and 800 doses of marijuana, cocaine and heroin during a search last September of the Aquiles Serdan prison, which is in Chihuahua city, the state capital.
Chihuahua, one of the states most affected by drug-related violence in Mexico, has accounted for about 30 percent of the more than 47,000 drug-related murders registered since President Felipe Calderon declared war on the country’s drug cartels in December 2006.
–IANS/EFE
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