Dozens escape Mexican jail in deadly attack

Dozens of inmates person escaped from a situation successful bluish Mexico aft gunmen, suspected to beryllium members of a cause cartel, opened occurrence connected the facility.

The men arrived extracurricular the Chihuahua authorities situation soon aft 07:00 (14:00 GMT) successful armoured vehicles and began firing connected the guards, authorities say.

Ten were killed, on with 4 prisoners, during the audacious and brutal onslaught successful the borderline metropolis of Ciudad Juarez.

Police accidental immoderate 24 inmates escaped.

Fighting wrong the prison, wherever inmates from differing transgression bands and cause cartels are housed successful abstracted cellblocks, besides near 13 radical injured. Four of them are being treated successful hospital, situation authorities said.

Outside, relatives gathered, hugging each different and crying arsenic they waited for news.

One pistillate said the attackers were dressed successful black, were amended equipped than the police, and were shooting astatine immoderate vehicles that passed by.

The service and the nationalist defender person been called successful to enactment section authorities successful the aftermath.

The metropolis has seen years of convulsive clashes betwixt the rival Sinaloa and Juarez cause cartels, sidesplitting thousands of radical successful the past decade.

The situation was besides the tract of an uprising past August successful which a riot wrong the jailhouse spilled implicit into the streets, sidesplitting 11 people.

Both incidents underline the spot which the cause cartels inactive exert connected the situation system.

Prosecutors successful the city, which is crossed the borderline from El Paso, Texas, person promised an probe into the latest attack.

Minutes earlier the escape, equipped men fired connected constabulary connected a adjacent street, mounting disconnected a car pursuit that ended up with 4 men being detained.

In a antithetic country of the city, 2 much drivers died aft what officials called equipped aggression.

Authorities person not yet said whether the incidents are believed to beryllium linked.