At least 14 inmates dead and 35 wounded is the preliminary assessment of a fire apparently caused by a short in a prison located in Apodaca, in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo Leon, said yesterday the fire department in the area.
Early data from the facts point that the incident began at dawn, shortly before 04.00 local time (09.00 GMT) in the psychiatric ward of the Centre for Social Rehabilitation of the city, making it collapsed the roof of the compound, located in this locality near Monterrey, capital of the state.
RESCUE. At first, the prison guards tried to control the conflagration, but that failed, they had to call firefighters, who managed to do 04.20.
Outside the prison were deployed police and military stationed in Apodaca and the Monterrey metropolitan area to guard the prison.
In the trance, the wounded, most of them intoxicated by the smoke, were moved to another area of \u200b\u200bthe prison.
Security spokesman of the state of Nuevo León, Jorge Domene, said it appeared the inmates who were in the area of \u200b\u200bpsychiatry were there due to overcrowding in the prison there, which led to it was adapted as a bedroom.
Outside the jail and military police were deployed to guard the prison.
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