Footage showed the prisoners leaving the jail unhindered by security guards [EPA]

Alejando Rojas Chalico, the public security minister for Zacatecas, the northern state where the incident occurred, resigned six days after the escape.

Police are offering a $76,000 reward for each inmate who were seen on security camera video taking less than three minutes to flee the prison.

An armed man posing as a commando in a police uniform had broken into Cieneguillas prison last Saturday and released the men.

Footage shows several trucks with police markings on them arriving at the jail. About 20 men then walked into that jail without any resistance from guards.

Almost a dozen of them are suspected members of the Zetas - the armed wing of the powerful Gulf drug cartel - with involvement in kidnapping or robberies.

Interpol has put out an international security alert for 11 of the fugitives.

Prison guards told local media that they had been threatened by the Zetas in recent months.

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