Forty one inmates escaped have from a prison on Mexico's northern border and two guards also disappeared, an official statement said.The state government of Tamaulipas said the inmates escaped from the jail in the Mexican city of Matamoros, across from Brownsville in the US state of Texas.Most of the prisoners had been detained for federal crimes, including organised crime and drug trafficking.The statement on Thursday said that the prison director had been immediately fired but gave no further information.The northern state of Tamaulipas has seen some of Mexico's worst drug violence in recent weeks as two formerly allied drug gangs, the Gulf Cartel and the Zetas, fight for control of the area which is on key trafficking routes into the United States.More than 15,000 people have died in suspected drug violence across Mexico since the end of 2006.Last year, 53 prisoners made a spectacular escape from a jail in Zacatecas, northern Mexico, aided by an armed gang and prison guards.
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