Hundreds of anxious families waited outside Tijuana's infamous La Mesa State Penitentiary for word on their loved ones Thursday after police fatally shot 19 prisoners to regain control of the facility.Wednesday's riot was the second deadly melee in three days at the prison just across the U.S. border from San Diego.
About 12 people were injured Wednesday and two remain in critical condition, said Agustin Perez, spokesman of the Public Safety Secretary's office, which oversees prisons in Mexico's state of Baja California.
Blaming prison troublemakers for the uprisings that killed a total of 23 inmates, state authorities immediately transferred 250 inmates to other prisons in Tecate and Ensenada.
But relatives of the inmates say they rioted because they were not given food or water since the previous riot on Sunday.