20 dead in prison riot in MexicoTwenty people have been killed and 25 others injured in a riot that erupted in a prison in northern Mexico, officials have said. The rioting was sparked by rivalries among prison gangs that used knives, firearms This is an extensive list of small arms — pistol, machine gun, grenade launcher, anti-tank rifle — that includes variants. : Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A
prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the public security secretariat in the Mexican state of Durango. All the victims were inmates at the prison that is located in the town of Gomez Palacio Gó·mez Pa·la·ci·o A city of north-central Mexico west of Monterrey. It is a processing and transportation center in an agricultural region. Population: 219,000. . More than 300 prison guards and federal police participated in putting the riot down. Jorge Torres, the Durango public security secretary, said the situation at the penitentiary penitentiary: see prison. , which holds 1,081 inmates, was now "relatively calm." But he warned the overall atmosphere at the jail was tense, calling it "a time bomb" waiting to explode. As many as 15 people were killed in the penitentiary over the past several months, according to Torres. 
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