At least 141 inmates escaped Friday from a prison in Mexico's northeast border city of Nuevo Laredo, cnn reported.
cnn报道，本周五在墨西哥东北部的边境城市新拉雷多至少有141名囚犯逃狱。
The secretary of public security of Tamaulipas, Antonio Garza Garcia, told the state-run news agency: "We are working on the count but, so far, the confirmed number is 141."
塔毛利帕斯周的公共安全部门的官员安东尼奥·加尔萨·加西亚告诉当地州立新闻机构说：“我们正在计算人数，但是目前为止确切的数字是141人。”
In addition, the prison director, Jesus Horacio Sepulveda, had disappeared.
另外，该监狱的监狱长杰西·奥拉西奥·瑟蒲伟达也已失踪。
A preliminary investigation indicated that the inmates -- in collusion with prison workers -- escaped through the service entrance for vehicles belonging to prison staff members.
一份初步调查表明这些囚犯——与监狱里的工作人员勾结——从监狱员工使用的监狱进出通道逃离。
Tamaulipas has been a battleground for turf wars between rival drug groups, though there was no immediate indication that drug gangs were involved.
塔毛利帕斯一直都是墨西哥两大贩毒集团争夺的地盘，虽然目前还没有直接证据显示这起事件与这些贩毒集团有关。