MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Eight inmates were attacked and killed in a Mexican prison near the U.S. border a day after being transferred to the facility, the local state government said on Thursday.
The killings took place on Wednesday afternoon in Nuevo Laredo, across the border from Laredo, Texas, when several prisoners attacked the newly arrived inmates with home-made knives, the ministry of public security in the northeastern state of Tamaulipas said in a statement.
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