MEXICO CITY — An hours-long rolling gunbattle at a northern Mexico prison left seven dead and 13 injured before control was re-established Wednesday morning, authorities said. Continuous automatic gunfire was heard late Tuesday at the prison in Ciudad Victoria, the capital of the border state of Tamaulipas. The gunfire continued into the morning at the prison, which has been one of Mexico’s most troubled. The state security spokesman’s office said three police officers and four inmates died in the shootouts, while six police and seven prisoners were wounded. Inmates at the state prison somehow managed to obtain guns and began fighting authorities.

Source: National Post June 08, 2017 14:15 UTC