China News Service, Beijing, January 4 (Mexico City News): According to Reuters, the Mexican Ministry of Defense said on the 3rd local time that the country had sent 200 military personnel to the northern border city of Juárez to combat terrorist attacks in the city. organized crime.
Mexican authorities said on the 2nd that a group of militants in armored vehicles attacked a prison in Juarez, Chihuahua, on the morning of the 1st, killing 19 people and triggering a large-scale prison escape.
Initially, Mexican officials said 20 prisoners had escaped, but the head of the state prison system has since announced that "at least 30 escaped," including "El Neto," the leader of the drug cartel Los Mexicos, according to the BBC.
According to reports, the man was sentenced to 14 years in prison for kidnapping and murder and wielded great power in prison. Searchers found a jacuzzi, TV and a safe with cash in his cell.
In 2010, his gang tried unsuccessfully to rob a prison while he was being transferred.
According to a Reuters report on the 4th, the Chihuahua state government stated that seven people died in the follow-up pursuit, and the death toll related to the incident has risen to 26.
Alejandro Alvarado, the head of the Juárez prison, has been removed from his post and is being investigated for his possible role in the escape, Chihuahua state prosecutors said.
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