Bloody clashes in jail leaves 31 dead
Fighting between inmates left at least 31 dead and 13 wounded in a jail in northeast Mexico, Utro.ru reported.
Police and soldiers surrounded the Santa Amalia jail, in Altamira on the Gulf of Mexico, and eventually regained control, a federal police spokesman said.
According to AFP prisoners used makeshift weapons in the clash, which broke out in the men's section of the jail in the south of the border state of Tamaulipas.
Thirteen inmates suspected of involvement in the fight were detained, state authorities said.
The jail was designed to hold 2,000 inmates but had a population of more than 3,000.