t least 49 people were killed and 12 people wounded in a prison riot in the Mexican city of Monterrey, the governor of the northeastern state of Nuevo Leon has said.
Governor Jaime Rodriguez said that fighting broke out before midnight on Wednesday night in two areas of the Topo Chico prison, between a faction of the infamous Zetas gang and another group.
"During the clash several prisoners set fire to the food storage and sleeping areas," Rodriguez told reporters at a news conference on Thursday.
It was not immediately clear how the victims died, but Rodriguez said there was no gunfire.
Al Jazeera’s Adam Raney, reporting from Mexico City, said: "The governor made a point of saying that no one had escaped; that this was not an escape attempt but it was this battle between two groups in the prison."
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