Seven people have died in a prison riot in the Mexican city of Villahermosa in Tabasco state, the latter’s prosecutor reported on X.

The Tabasco state attorney general's office has opened an investigation into the events that took place at the Social Reintegration Center in Tabasco state, where seven deaths have been recorded, the attorney general's office informed.

According to the Proceso newspaper, the riot occurred as a result of an escape attempt by a prisoner who is considered the instigator of the riot.