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Police in Mexico are hunting several prisoners who escaped during a bloody liberation coup on Sunday. Now several of the prisoners have been killed.
Armed men stormed a prison in the city of Ciudad Juarez in northern Mexico on Sunday.
The attackers arrived in armored vehicles. An unknown number of perpetrators participated in the attack.
Nearly 20 people died, including prison guards and security personnel. Several prisoners, including a gang leader, were able to escape.
According to Mexican authorities, it is Ernesto Alfredo Pinon, known by the name “El Neto,” leader of a criminal gang allied with the Juarez drug cartel.
Pinon was sentenced to more than 200 years in prison in 2010 for kidnapping and murder, according to the Chihuahua state prosecutor’s office.
Another seven people have been killed on Monday in the hunt for the fugitives, according to the Mexican police. Two of them are government employees at the public prosecutor’s office, the remaining five were suspected criminals on the run.
Defense Minister Luis Cresencio Sandoval has previously said that ten guards, seven prisoners and two of the attackers were killed in Sunday’s release.