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NUEVO LAREDO. — Eight prisoners were stabbed to death in a northern Mexican prison during a fight that six suspects said began when they were “verbally attacked,” authorities said yesterday.
The victims were killed with homemade knives yesterday afternoon in the prison of Nuevo Laredo, a city bordering Texas that has been the scene of drug cartel violence.
The eight men had arrived at the prison on Tuesday for the murder of a couple and two other people, as well as charges of racketeering, theft and crimes against public servants, according to the public security department of the state of Tamaulipas.
Murder, riots and mass escapes frequently take place in Mexican prisons, and organised crime groups control sections of most penitentiaries, according to the National Human Rights Commission.
At least 278 convicts died in prisons from 2011 to the first half of 2012.
The causes of death ranged from suicide to brawls among prisoners and natural causes the commission says. — AFP.
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