The New Year’s Eve game involved rival drug cartel members and descended into a bloodbath involving guns and knives at the prison in Mexico.
Sixteen inmates have been killed and five others wounded in a mass fight after a prison football match.
The fight broke out at the Varonil prison in the town of Cieneguillas, located in Mexico’s north-central Zacatecas state. It is thought visitors to the jail brought in guns and knives as the jail was declared free from weapons at the weekend.However, after the fight on Tuesday one inmate was arrested with a firearm, three more guns were found in the prison as well as 20 knives, a bone saw, two hammers and scissors.
The jail holds members of five main criminal groups, including the Los Zetas cartel which was formed about nine years ago when its founders broke away from the Gulf crime syndicate and set up a rival faction.The jail is around 30 years old and holds members of five rival criminal gangs
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