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Jail riot in drug war-hit Mexican city kills 17
	
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) - A riot between rival drug gang factions at a jail near the violence-ravaged Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez left up to 17 people dead on Wednesday, officials and medical workers said.
    
"There are at least 15 dead. The fight is under control. It seems there were firearms in the riot," said Manuel del Castillo, spokesman for the state government in Ciudad Juarez.
    
Red Cross workers at the scene told reporters that 15 inmates and two federal police officers had been killed.
    
It was the latest drama to engulf the city, just across the border from El Paso, Texas, after an explosion in drug violence that killed 250 people last month alone prompted the government to send in thousands of troop reinforcements this week.
    
Ciudad Juarez has become the worst flashpoint in President Felipe Calderon's two-year-old drug war, with some of Mexico's most powerful cartels fighting over prime smuggling turf, aided by crooked cops who let them pass under the radar for a fee.
    
The U.S. and Canadian governments have warned tourists to stay away from dangerous border cities this spring.
    
Troops have poured into Ciudad Juarez since the weekend and the mayor's office said the army will take control of the local police force, prisons and traffic police from next week.
    
Police outside the jail, in the desert just outside Ciudad Juarez, said Wednesday's riot started after clashes between rival inmate factions of the local "Azteca" drug gang that works for the Juarez cartel.
    
Ambulances piled up to carry off casualties as plumes of brown smoke curled from the jail's windows.
    
Earlier, protesters burned mattresses on the roofs of cellblocks at the prison, home to some 1,200 inmates, as hundreds of troops and federal police in riot gear moved in with tear gas and helicopters circled overhead.
    
(Reporting by Robin Emmott; Writing by Catherine Bremer)
    
    
    
      
      
 
      
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