Over the past 48 hours, the Mexican city of Villahermosa, the capital of the Gulf coast state of Tabasco, has been engulfed in chaos after a prison riot that began on Thursday left seven inmates dead.
The riot broke inside the Tabasco State Social Rehabilitation Center (Creset) after authorities tried to transfer two inmates to a different facility. When officers entered the building they were met by gunfire. Apart from the seven fatalities confirmed so far, six police officers and 10 other inmates were injured.
