17 Inmates Break Out of Prison in Mexico
<i> Associated Press</i>
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico —
Seventeen inmates have escaped from a Mexican prison near Texas through an elaborate tunnel dug beneath a prison wall.
The men took three to six months to dig a tunnel almost 80 yards long from a cell in the CeReSo prison to a nearby orchard, police said. They escaped early Sunday and remained at large Monday morning.
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