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| Mexican politician beheaded, wife killed |
| 2009-09-07 |
| A local politician and his wife and two sons have been brutally killed in the southeastern Mexican state of Tabasco. Jose Francisco Fuentes, 43, was beheaded, his sons aged eight and 10 were suffocated and his wife was shot in the head, local news media said on Sunday, citing police sources. State officials confirmed that Fuentes, 43, a candidate for state legislature with the powerful Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) who lived in the state capital Villahermosa, was killed along with his wife and children but provided no other details. Beheadings and suffocations, often with plastic bags taped over the victim's heads, are the grisly trademark of criminals involved in Mexico's drug cartels. Fuentes had nearly 40 per cent support against 21 per cent for his closest rival for the October 18 election, Tabasco media reported. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #7 hopefully the authorities will decide to "nick them a bit" with hollowpoints, but get "carried away"? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2009-09-07 19:33 |
| #6 The culprit has been found. Per the AP: A sixteen year old neighbor, the gated community security guard, and a third young man confessed to police they intended to rob the house and rape the wife, but seem to have got carried away. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-09-07 19:29 |
| #5 Assault Knives™ bought at a Kitchen |
| Posted by: Frank G 2009-09-07 09:48 |
| #4 Were the beheading knives smuggled in from the United States? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2009-09-07 08:41 |
| #3 You sure have delightful southern neighbours. How is that Friendship Fence going? You might want to build it taller, perhaps. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2009-09-07 08:24 |
| #2 They were probably suffocated while the parents watched. |
| Posted by: lotp 2009-09-07 07:56 |
| #1 You suffocated the kids? |
| Posted by: newc 2009-09-07 06:44 |