28 inmates killed in Mexico prison riot
Mexico News Daily quoted security spokesman Roberto Álvarez Heredia as saying that five of the victims were decapitated during a fight that broke out about 4:00am local time and left three people injured at the Las Cruces prison.
He blamed it on a longstanding dispute between factions within the jail.
In a report released in May by the National Human Rights Commission, the prison was one of 71 out of 154 Mexican prisons visited by rights workers that were under the control of the prisoners themselves.
Since early morning, the perimeter of the prison was under guard by police, the military and two government helicopters.
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