Events: Topics: On 1 January 2023, a gang stormed a prison in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico, resulting in the deaths of 19 people.
Ciudad Juárez is a large city in Chihuahua which is next to the United States border, opposite El Paso in Texas.
[1] Ten guards, seven inmates, and two gunmen were killed,[2] while 13 other people were wounded, and four were arrested.
At least 30 inmates escaped, including the leader of the Los Mexicles gang, Ernesto Alfredo Piñón de la Cruz, who is believed to be behind a wave of killings in August 2022 known as "Black Thursday", in which 10 people were killed.
[3] Piñón de la Cruz was killed in a subsequent shootout with law enforcement in the early hours of 5 January.