Police, dogs search notorious Mexican prison for clandestine graves
By Daniel Becerril MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) - In the courtyard of a jail that was shuttered last week, a man wearing a surgical mask and gloves used an underground scanner to search the earth for hidden graves in what was for decades one of Mexico's most violent prisons. The Topo Chico prison closed last week after a 76-year history that saw riots, fires and bloody internal quarrels. A doctor who was in custody decades ago inspired one of the lead characters in the 1991 movie "The Silence of the Lambs." Authorities have vowed to continue "until we finish combing the whole area as it should be," Aldo Fasci, security minister for Nuevo Leon state told reporters
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