Seventeen people were killed and two injured in a prison riot in Mexico, broadcaster CNN reported Tuesday citing police.
A fight broke out between rival groups of inmates in the prison in Ciudad Juarez on Monday night.
City spokesman Manuel del Castillo told CNN that visits to the prison had been indefinitely suspended, but would provide no additional details.
Ciudad Juarez, which is across the border from the US city of El Paso, Texas, is regarded as the most violent city in Mexico.
Mexico, particularly its northern and north-eastern regions, has experienced a surge in violence linked to organized crime in recent years, with more than 15,000 people killed in 2010. An estimated 3,100 of those deaths were in Ciudad Juarez.
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