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Mexico kidnappers kill child with acid injection
Kidnappers in Mexico City killed a five-year-old child by acid injection after discovering they were sought by police, local prosecutors say.Four suspected kidnappers, including a woman and a 17-year-old boy who knew the victim's family, initially sought a $34,000 ransom after kidnapping the child on October 26, the capital's prosecutor's office said. "When they found out they were sought by police, they decided to take the victim to a hill... where they killed and buried him," a statement said. The child was killed with an injection of acid, it added. The suspects were detained at the weekend after a tipoff from a taxi driver who had picked up one of them with the child and later alerted police after seeing a news report on his disappearance. Official figures show there were 651 kidnappings in Mexico in the first nine months of the year, although experts say the figure could be two or three times higher because many cases go unreported. Posted by: Oztralian 2008-11-03 |
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