Gangsters use vehicles to ram into Mexico prison and free nine inmates


Mexican gangsters used a convoy of vehicles – including a truck with homemade armour-plating – to ram their way into a prison before opening fire at guards and rescuing nine inmates.

Several other vehicles were also set on fire in the spectacular plot targeting the jail in the central city of Tula. The escapees include José Artemio Maldonado Mejía, alias “El Michoacano”, the leader of a local crime organisation known as Pueblos Unidos.

Local media reported that the gang also detonated several car bombs, but authorities said they were still investigating how the vehicles caught fire.

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Source: The Guardian/