Gangsters use vehicles to ram into Mexico prison and free nine inmates

The armed group broke into the jail in Tula and opened fire, injuring a guard and a police officer

Mexican gangsters used a convoy of vehicles - including a truck with homemade armour-plating - to ram their way into a prison before opening fire at guards and rescuing nine inmates.

Several other vehicles were also set on fire in the spectacular plot targeting the jail in the central city of Tula. The escapees include Jose Artemio Maldonado Mejia, alias El Michoacano", the leader of a local crime organisation known as Pueblos Unidos.