44 killed in Mexico prison riot

 

At least 44 inmates have been killed in a riot at a prison near the northern Mexican city of Monterrey(an industrial hub and Mexico's third largest city) on Sunday Feb 19,2012 

 

Nuevo Leon state public security spokesman Jorge Domene Zambrano said the riot broke out at about 2 a.m. in a high-security section of a state prison in the city of Apodaca outside the northern industrial city of Monterrey. 

The fight between two cell blocks, each with about 750 prisoners, may have been staged as a cover for a prison break, he said. Mr. Domene said in counting the dead, officials discovered some prisoners missing, but didn’t know yet how many.