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Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 01:05:12 -0400
From: irlandesa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: AP: Mass Prison Breakout in Chiapas
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AP 4-May-1999 21:56 EDT REF6095
Copyright 1999. The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.
By ALEJANDRO RUIZ
Associated Press Writer
SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS, Mexico (AP) -- About 100 prisoners
overpowered guards and hijacked vehicles in a mass escape Tuesday in
southern Mexico that left one prisoner dead and four others and a guard
were wounded, authorities said.
The inmates from Penitentiary No. 5 also took two female prison
employees hostage as they fled toward the sparsely-populated eastern half
of Chiapas state.
"They yelled at us to get the children into the cells because gunfire
was breaking out," said one inmate's wife, who identified herself only as
Virginia. She and her children were visiting when the jailbreak occurred.
Television footage showed penitentiary gates bashed apart and shattered
windows in the guards' towers.
The inmates were serving sentences or awaiting trial on charges ranging
from robbery to murder at the prison, 10 miles east of this colonial city,
and reportedly began the uprising to protest plans to move them to other
facilities. Prison officials refused to comment on those reports.
Authorities said the breakout began when a mob of as many as 250 inmates
reportedly broke down a fence inside the prison Tuesday afternoon and
overpowered guards. They then broke into a weapons storage area and took 18
rifles and shotguns.
The casualties occurred when guards opened fire as the inmates fled.
Police reports indicated that only four fugitive inmates had been
recaptured in the first hours of a massive manhunt.
The prison reopened in 1998 after being partially destroyed by leftist
Zapatista rebels during their January 1994 uprising to demand greater
democracy and Indian rights. The rebels freed 180 inmates from the facility
in that attack.
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