MEXICO CITY – About 140 inmates have escaped from a state prison in the northern Mexico border city of Nuevo Laredo, across from Laredo, Texas.
Mexico's federal interior department blames the escape on local authorities, saying they did not properly guard the facility.
The exact number of escapees is still being reviewed. The federal Attorney General's Office says initial reports indicated 148 inmates had escaped. But local media put the number at 141.
A Friday statement from the interior department says "deplorable" security conditions at state facilities have caused many such escapes.
Some of the latest escaped inamates were being held on drug and weapons charges.
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