Police Storm Prison, Kill Six, End Riot

Police firing bullets and tear gas stormed an overcrowded prison Thursday and quelled a riot by inmates who had been without water for two days. Six inmates were killed in the assault and 58 wounded.

The riot took place at the Social Readaptation Center, a 2,400-inmate prison in Guadalajara, 280 miles northwest of Mexico City.

The Jalisco state government’s secretary general, Raul Octavio Espinoza, blamed the riot, the third in the past 15 days, on a shortage of prison guards. But he conceded there was a shortage of food, drinking water and medical services and noted the prison had been designed for only 1,000 inmates.