7 inmates are dead after a prison riot in southern Mexico

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Seven inmates are dead after a prison riot in southern Mexico, where inmates resisted transfers to other jails and fought police with guns and knives. Four police officers and six other inmates were injured in the riot in the Gulf coast state of Tabasco. State police chief Víctor Hugo Chávez said late Thursday that officers were met by gunfire early in the day when they entered the prison to transfer two inmates to a federal penitentiary. One of the inmates held out for about three hours with a gun, protected by 20 fellow prisoners.