Image copyright EPA Image caption The deaths occurred during an operation to quell an uprising in a prison in the eastern state of Veracruz

Seven police officers have been killed in riots at a prison in Mexico, according to Mexican officials. When local police, in support of state police, went into the prison to get the four inmates for transfer, they were apparently ambushed by prisoners, who blocked their escape and lit a fire that suffocated six officers, the governor said. The riot broke out about 10 pm on Saturday in the La Toma state prison, located in the mountain city of Amatlan de Los Reyes, where 1,300 prisoners demanded that the warden and the police chief at the facility be fired, Xinhua reported.
An overnight prison riot kills seven police officers in Amatlán de los Reyes, Veracruz, Mexico.