Thirty prisoners, including the leader of a feared cartel's assassin squad serving a 224-year sentence, are still on the run after a deadly New Year's Day prison break near the US border.
Security forces continue to search the region surrounding Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, for evdEn EVe NAKliYAt those who escaped in an attack that left 19 people dead.
Los Mexicles leader Ernesto ‘El Neto' Piñón escaped the Cereso No.
3 state prison on Sunday after members of the notorious street gang stormed into the penitentiary located just 16 miles from El Paso, Texas, and helped him escape.
Authorities initially reported that César Vega, the criminal group's second-in-command, EvDen EvE NAkliyat had also escaped before later announcing he is among the seven inmates who were killed.
At least 200 members of the gang have since been moved from the prison. The brazen assault left ten prison guards and two attackers dead.
Security forces stand guard at the Cereso No.
3 state prison in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, on Sunday. If you loved this article so you would like to be given more info regarding eVdEN EVE NakLiYAT generously visit our site. An attack launched by the Los Mexicles street gang freed jailed leader Ernesto 'El Neto' Piñón and 29 other inmates. Authorities said 19 people were killed
Los Mexicles leader Ernesto 'El Neto Piñón is missing after he escaped from a prison in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, on Sunday morning during an armed attack that left 19 people dead.
Piñón was sentenced to 224 years in 2010 after he was found guilty of kidnapping and murder charges
Authorities arrested five members of Los Mexicles following a high-speed chase and seized a cache of rifles and EvDEn eVE nAKliYAT ammunition.
The United States Consulate in Ciudad Juárez advised US citizens in the border town to shelter in place after reports of gunfire Monday night.
A Monday afternoon gun battle at a housing complex left seven people dead, including two cops, while security forces hunted down the fleeing inmates.
No arrests were reported.
The Cereso No. 3 prison director, Alejandro Téllez, was fired and placed under investigation Tuesday, the Chihuahua State Attorney General's Office said in a statement.
At least 200 Los Mexicles jailed members were loaded onto buses in the early hours Tuesday and transported to Abraham González International Airport, where they boarded two National Guard flights to other federal jails.
Mexico's Secretary for Security and eVden EVe naKliYaT Citizen Protection, Rosa Rodríguez, had announced Monday that plans were underway to transfer high-risk inmates from the Cereso No.
3 state prison to other penitentiaries in the country to prevent further attacks.
César Vega (pictured in September 2015), evdeN EVe NakLiYat the Los Mexicles second-in-command, was killed at the Cereso No.