At least 141 inmates escaped Friday from a prison in Mexico's northeast border city of Nuevo Laredo,?CNN reported.
CNN報道，本周五在墨西哥東北部的邊境城市新拉雷多至少有141名囚犯逃獄
。

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門的官員安東尼奧·加爾薩·加西亞告訴當?shù)刂萘⑿侣剻C構說：“我們正在計算人數(shù)，但是目前為止確切的數(shù)字是141人。”

In addition, the prison director, Jesus Horacio Sepulveda, had disappeared.
另外，該監(jiān)獄的監(jiān)獄長杰西·奧拉西奧·瑟蒲偉達也已失蹤。

A preliminary investigation indicated that the inmates -- in collusion with prison workers -- escaped through the service entrance for vehicles belonging to prison staff members.
一份初步調查表明這些囚犯——與監(jiān)獄里的工作人員勾結——從監(jiān)獄員工使用的監(jiān)獄進出通道逃離。

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兩大販毒集團爭奪的地盤，雖然目前還沒有直接證據(jù)顯示這起事件與這些販毒集團有關。