멕시코 교도소 혈투극으로 28명 사망 At least 28 dead after brutal gang fight in Mexico prison: VIDEO
At least 28 dead after brutal gang fight in Mexico prison
Outbreak of violence in Acapulco, one of the worst in recent years, comes during visit by US homeland security secretary John Kelly
Riot police line up outside a prison after a riot broke out at the maximum security wing in Acapulco, Mexico,
on 6 July.
멕시코의 남서부 휴양도시 아카풀코에 있는 교도소에서 6일(현지시간)
재소자들 간 충돌로 최소 28명이 사망하고 3명 이상이 다쳤다고
텔레비사 방송 등 현지 언론이 보도했다.
황기철 콘페이퍼 에디터
Ki Chul Hwang, conpaper editor
Reuters in Acapulco
Thursday 6 July 2017 23.03 BST Last modified on Thursday 6 July 2017 23.08 BST
At least 28 prisoners were killed in a brutal prison fight on Thursday in the Mexican Pacific resort of Acapulco, in one of the worst outbreaks of violence in the country’s troubled penal system in recent years.
Acapulco is the biggest city in Guerrero, one of Mexico’s most lawless states and a center of opium poppy production that has been a major concern to US officials.
The prison carnage was particularly embarrassing to Mexico as it came the same day US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) secretary John Kelly was visiting Guerrero, which lies in the southwest of the country.
Guerrero state security official Roberto Alvarez told reporters that the fight broke out between rival gangs in the maximum security wing of the prison.
Authorities discovered bodies throughout the wing, including inside and just outside the kitchen, as well as the area for conjugal visits, he said.
A law enforcement official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters that four of them had been decapitated.
Kelly, one of the main links between the Mexican government and the Trump administration on migration and security cooperation, arrived in Mexico on Wednesday and has held meetings with top officials including president Enrique Peña Nieto.
Two Mexican officials said Kelly would be able to observe Mexico’s efforts to eradicate poppies during his visit and two other officials said he had gone to Guerrero on Thursday.
A US embassy official could not provide details about the homeland security chief’s activities on Thursday.
The killings in Acapulco are the latest example of an upsurge in violent crime that has turned 2017 into one of the bloodiest years in the country’s modern history.
Acapulco, one of Mexico’s most famous beach resorts, was once a playground for Hollywood stars. However, in recent years it has been roiled by vicious gang warfare, and is now ranked one of the most murderous cities in the world.
Early last year, 49 people died in a battle between members of the feared Zetas drug cartel and rivals at a prison in the northern industrial city of Monterrey
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