5 Virginia prison guards injured in attack by inmates accused of being MS-13 members

An attack by inmates at a Virginia prison injured five guards, according to state corrections officials who said most of the assailants were MS-13 gang members who entered the U.S. illegally. The attack was apparently premeditated, the officials said.

Three guards were stabbed and taken for medical treatment along with two others hurt Friday at Wallens Ridge State Prison in western Virginia, the state Department of Corrections said.

The agency said in a press release that six inmates involved had all been convicted of violent crimes including murder and rape and that five of them were "confirmed MS-13 gang members from El Salvador, who were in this country illegally." It said the sixth inmate was a U.S. citizen with ties to a different gang.