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Caribbean-Latin America
59 Dead Found in Tamaulipas
2011-04-07
A total of 459 individuals were found in eight gravesites in the Mexican northern state of Tamaulipas Tuesday, according to Mexican news accounts.

Reports say the discovery was the result of a joint Mexican federal and Tamaulipas state investigation of a hijacking that took place March 25th involving a public bus.

Incident to the discovery was the arrest of 11 suspects suspected in the kidnappings.

The graves were found on the ejido La Joya within the San Fernando town limits.

A number of shootings have taken place on Tamaulipas' highways around the same time as the hijacking.

  • On March 23rd on the Valle Hermosa-Reynosa highway a Mexican Army detachment fought a group of armed suspects killing 13, and seizing seven vehicles and a number of munitions.
    To see the Rantburg report on the March 23rd firefight, click here.

  • Seventeen individuals were killed in several incidents March 25th and March 26, including a traffic stop by a detachment of the Mexican Army which resulted in a fire and explosion from munitions that killed three armed suspects.
    To see the Rantburg report on the March 25th and March 26th shootings, click here.

San Fernando, which is halfway between Ciudad Victoria and Reynosa on the main highway, was the site last summer where 72 migrants from Central and South America were massacred by a Los Zetas group.
To see the Rantburg report on the August 2010 massacre of Central and South American migrants, click here.
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