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BREAKING NEWS -- 16 die in Veracruz -- UPDATED
For a map, click here. Proceso is now backing off its 40 dead claim, now saying social networks include Twitter has stated unconforimed 40 dead, but so far that far higher death toll is not confirmed. This story will be updated throughout the evening. Updating with the newer confirmed death toll.Mexican press are reporting at least 16 individuals are confirmed dead in multiple firefights and attacks in northern Veracruz state Thursday morning. Apparently armed suspects exchanged gunfire with Mexican federal security forces after they attacked three passenger buses bound from Tampico, Tamaulipas and Monterrey, Nuevo Leon. Five armed suspects are reportedly dead from those firefights. Four armed suspects reportedly died in encounters with Mexican security forces in the area two days prior to the passenger bus attacks, while seven others in buses were killed by armed suspects this morning. The bus attacks were in apparent response to federal security forces intervention. Reports are the fighting between security forces and criminal groups in the area lasted for hours,and ended at about 1300 hrs Thursday afternoon. The gunfights took place on the Tempoal-Panuco road in northern Veracruz, about 20 kilometers southwest of Tampico, Tamaulipas. That stretch of highway of northern Veracruz stretches from Panuco south for 20 kilometers along Mexico Federal Highway 105. The victims in the bus attacks were killed in Tantoyuca, Veracruz, about 10 kilometers east of the Tempoal-Panuco road. Posted by: badanov 2011-12-22 |
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