Monitoring Desk
MEXICO CITY/CIUDAD JUAREZ: The defense ministry of Mexico has said that it had flown 200 military personnel to the border city of Juarez to fight organized crime, days after the deadly prison riot led to the manhunt for escaped convicts.
They said that officials also sacked the director of prison from which at least 30 prisoners escaped.
Mexico State prosecutor
State prosecutor in the border state of Chihuahua said that Alejandro Alvarado, head of the Juarez prison, was dismissed and also under investigation for a possible role in the jailbreak alongside others. Nineteen people died after gunmen attacked the prison, few miles from south of El Paso, Texas, killing security guards and inmates and triggering the mass escape that included the cartel kingpin Ernesto Alfredo Pinon de la Cruz, also known as “El Neto.
Federal authorities have arrived to restore order, finding a “very important zone” in the state-run prison with drugs and money. Chihuahua’s government said that seven people had died during subsequent police clashes as a part of the hunt to find the escaped inmates. Two of the dead were police officers.
