Reuters, 1/04/2012
A battle between rival gangs inside a prison in northern Mexico left at least 31 inmates dead in the latest violence to erupt inside the country’s overcrowded penal institutions, local officials said on Wednesday.
Clashes between prisoners wielding knives and homemade weapons began about midday and were controlled several hours later in Altamira, a city on the Gulf of Mexico in Tamaulipas State, said a state government spokesman, Guillermo Martínez.
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