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Mexico Prison Fight Leaves at Least 16 Inmates DeadBy Elian Peltier Jan. 1, 2020, 8:50 a.m. ETA fight at a prison in northern Mexico has left at least 16 inmates dead and five wounded, the local authorities said, in one of the worst outbreaks of violence in the country’s troubled penal system for years.The violence broke out Tuesday afternoon at the Cieneguillas men’s penitentiary in the state of Zacatecas, said the state’s public safety secretary, Ismael Camberos Hernández. He said that prison officials were alerted by alarms and the sounds of gunshots and that they grappled for nearly three hours to bring the situation under control....The authorities did not say how the fight started, but several Mexican news outlets reported that inmates from rival cartels had turned a dispute over a friendly soccer game into a deadly fight. Read more at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/01/world/americas/mexico-prison-fight.html
