Note: The claim of 20 dead is added to today's Mexican Mayhem. Early reports are that the toll will be much higher,but at the moment the official word is 20 dead in Sonora.
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26 Die in Northern Mexico
A total of 26 individuals is the toll for drug and gang related violence in northern Mexico which included a Sonoran state police investigator murdered Thursday and a Guadalupe, Nuevo Leon police officer wounded in a hand grenade attack.
- An unidentified man was found shot to death Friday morning near Chihuahua, Chihuahua, say Mexican press reports. The find was made on the main highway to Juarez at about the 4.5 km. marker. The victim, a male, was shot in the head.
- An unidentified man was found shot to death in southern Chihuahua city, say Mexican press accounts. The scene was near the intersection of Carrizalillo and calle 82nd involving a man in his 30s bound by his hands and shot in the forehead.
- Two bomb threats were issued Friday causing the evacuation of a newspaper office and other facilities in Juarez, say Mexican press reports. An unidentified caller phoned in a bomb threat to the offices of the Juarez newspaper El Norte Friday, near then intersection of calles Templo de San Lorenzo and El Mexicano downtown. A search conducted by Mexican Federal agents found no explosive device.
Meanwhile, in the Melchor Ocampo district near the intersection of calles Rubén Posada Pompa and Fernando Montes de Oca a minivan was found with a label "Car Bomb". No bomb was detected. Authorities think the threat was a prank.
In a related development, another message spray painted on a wall near the intersection of calles Isla Java and Isla in the 16 de Septiembre district, and signed La Linea, said a previous warning had been ignored. The previous warning issued on July 19th that Mexican federal officials known to be in the pay of drug gangs be arrested expires on August 3rd with the threat of another cab bomb.
- An unidentified woman was shot to death in Juarez Friday, say Mexican press accounts. The attack took place by the Super Mercado Gonzalez near the intersection of calles Ramon Rayon and Santiago Blancas. The victim was shot aboard her Lincoln Navigator with Oklahoma plates.
- A man walking alone was shot to death in Juarez Friday, accodring to Mexican press accounts. The attack took place near the intersection of calles Camilo Cienfuegos and Batalla de Santa Clara in the Che Guevara district when two armed suspects stepped from their vehicle and shot at the victim 13 times. A 9mm weapon was used in the attack. Witnesses say the armed suspects then re-boarded their vehicle and left normally.
- An unidentified man as found shot to death on the Chihuahua city-Delicias highway Friday according to Mexican press accounts.
The victim was found on Km. Marker 207 with a single gunshot wound to the head.
- An agent with the Sonora Policia Estatal Investigadora (PEI) was shot to death and another agent was wounded in an attack near San Pedro, Sonora Thursday, say Mexican press reports.
Jesús Gerardo Cäzarez Valenzuela, 27, was shot to death near the intersection of real Zamora and calle San Pedro while in his official Dodge Dakota by armed suspects riding aboard a Chevrolet Silverado. His partner, Leonardo Espino Valenzuela, was wounded in the attack. Investigators say AK-47 assault rifles were used in the attack. Police reports say the pair were shot with automatic fire.
- A Guadalupe, Nuevo Leon police officer was wounded in a hand grenade attack Wednesday night, say Mexican press reports. Tomas Lopez de Leon was wounded in the attack near the intersection of Avenida Las Americas and Calle Solidaridad in the Contry La Silla district while in his official vehicle. The vehicle was destroyed by a resulting fire. The officer suffered wounds on his legs.
- A television station was attacked by a suspect with a hand grenade in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas according to Mexican press reports. The Televisa Channel 57 offices were attacked at 1900 hrs when a grenade was detonated in the facility parking lot. The explosion damaged a car and made a crater in the ground. No one was reported hurt in the attack.
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