|
Tamaulipas: Car Bomb Explodes at State Police HQ
Google Translate from a variety of Mexican web sources. For a map, click hereA car bomb exploded in a back parking lot of the Tamaulipas state Secretaria de Seguridad Publica (SSP) headquarters in the offices of the Rural Police in Ciudad Victoria early Thursday evening, according to Mexican press reports. The detonation, which was first reported by Twitter users at 1800 hrs, took place at about 1720 hrs. The vehicle used was a Nissan Tsuru. The explosion damaged two official vehicles parked on either side but caused no injuries. The attack is the sixth on police forces in northern Mexico since Sunday night. Five small arms and hand grenade attacks have been made against Mexican Federal agents in Juarez which killed in total one agents and wounded six others including one civilian female. The bomb is also the second car bomb since the July 16th car bomb in Juarez, Chihuahua. One Mexican Federal agent and three civilians were killed in that blast. Posted by: badanov 2010-08-06 |
| http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=302756 |
