One inmate died and eight others were injured during a fight on Thursday at a prison in northern Mexico where 52 were killed in two other violent incidents earlier this year.
The situation at the Topo Chico prison in the industrial city of Monterrey was back under control after police entered the facility, authorities said.
"One person died in the fight," Josefat Quiroga, the prison's security commissioner, told reporters, adding that the brawl lasted about 10 minutes.
Seven of the eight injured inmates remain hospitalized.
In February, 49 inmates died in a massive brawl triggered by a power struggle between rival leaders of the Zetas drug cartel who fought over control of the penitentiary.
Three others, including the leader of a Zetas-linked group, died in June after a gang ordered a hit on a prison leader for failing to collect money and send it to the criminal group.
Mexico's prison system is notoriously overcrowded and violent, with cartels controling many penitentiaries.
One inmate died and eight others were injured during a fight on Thursday at a prison in northern Mexico where 52 were killed in two other violent incidents earlier this year.
The situation at the Topo Chico prison in the industrial city of Monterrey was back under control after police entered the facility, authorities said.
“One person died in the fight,” Josefat Quiroga, the prison’s security commissioner, told reporters, adding that the brawl lasted about 10 minutes.
Seven of the eight injured inmates remain hospitalized.
In February, 49 inmates died in a massive brawl triggered by a power struggle between rival leaders of the Zetas drug cartel who fought over control of the penitentiary.
Three others, including the leader of a Zetas-linked group, died in June after a gang ordered a hit on a prison leader for failing to collect money and send it to the criminal group.
Mexico’s prison system is notoriously overcrowded and violent, with cartels controling many penitentiaries.
