Convicts used as hit squad by Mexican prison governor
Guards and officials at a prison in northern Mexico let inmates out, lent them guns and sent them off in official vehicles to carry out drug-related killings, including the massacre of 17 people last week, prosecutors claim.
After carrying out the killings the inmates would return to their cells, the Attorney General's Office said.
Ricardo Najera, spokesman for the Attorney General's office, said: "According to witnesses, the inmates were allowed to leave with authorisation of the prison director ... to carry out instructions for revenge attacks using official vehicles and using guards' weapons for executions."
The director of the prison in Gomez Palacio, in Durango state, Mexico, and three other officials were placed under a form of house arrest pending further investigation. No charges have yet been filed.
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