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🇺🇸 14 dead and dozens of inmates escape after gunmen in armored vehicles attack state prison in Mexico just across the border from El Paso Gunmen in armored vehicles attacked a state prison in Mexico, just across the border from El Paso, leaving 14 people dead and allowing 24 inmates to escape. An unknown number of gunmen took part in the attack, which happened in the northern Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez. The dead included 10 prison guards and security agents, the Chihuahua state prosecutors' office said in a statement. Prosecutors said the outbreak of violence at the prison, including rioting inmates setting fire to various objects, also left 13 people injured. Moments before the attack, armed men fired on municipal police along a nearby boulevard, setting off a car chase that ended with the seizure of a vehicle and four men, the statement added. Later, assailants in a Hummer fired on another group of security agents outside the prison, it said.